The urologist named the non-obvious symptoms of kidney cancer

Kidney cancer is a malignant neoplasm that develops from cells of the renal tissue, most often from the epithelium of the renal tubules. The disease usually affects people over the age of 40, more often men. On June 27, a urologist, andrologist of JSC "Medicine" (Academician Roitberg clinic), PhD Karen Mkrtchyan told Izvestia about this.

According to him, kidney cancer is often detected accidentally during ultrasound or CT scan, as the disease is asymptomatic in the early stages. The most common form is considered to be renal cell carcinoma. At the first stage, symptoms are absent in 87%, and at the third stage — in 36%.

Mkrtchyan called the pain in the side, blood in the urine, and palpable formation a classic triad of symptoms. One of the most common symptoms, according to him, is hematuria — the presence of blood in the urine, which can be visually noticeable or detected only by laboratory tests.

"Patients may also experience dull or aching pain in the lumbar region unrelated to physical activity. With the progression of the disease, it is possible to form a dense tumor formation, palpable in the abdomen or on the side," warned Mkrtchyan.

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In addition, he said that among the common symptoms are often weakness, loss of appetite, weight loss, periodic increase in body temperature and high blood pressure. In some cases, kidney cancer manifests itself only when it has already spread beyond the organ, affecting nearby tissues or metastasizing to distant organs — the lungs, liver, brain, and especially often to bones.

"Laparoscopic kidney resection and laparoscopic nephrectomy are the gold standard in the treatment of kidney cancer. Minimally invasive treatment without incisions allows the removal of a kidney tumor through punctures, if the stage of the disease allows, to preserve the kidney. With minimal pain in the postoperative period and a period of hospitalization from one to three days," the doctor said.

Metastatic bone damage in kidney cancer is accompanied by severe pain, limited mobility, pathological fractures and a significant decrease in the patient's quality of life. Palliative treatment using radiopharmaceuticals, one of which is Samarium-153, can be used to combat this manifestation of the disease. It is a radioactive isotope that is injected intravenously and selectively accumulates in areas of bone tissue where there are metastases.

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