Kidney Cancer Treatment

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kidney cancer treatment

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• The treatment options of renal cell carcinoma
  vary from patient to patient - two patients are
  exactly alike, treatment and responses to
  treatment vary greatly. It depends on many
  factors, such as the tumor size and location,
  type of the RCC (Clear Cell RCC, Papillary RCC,
  etc.), the general health state of the patient.
  One of the most important factors is the cancer
  stage. First of all, click to check this
  simplified stage form and you need to be sure
  about the cancer stage before continuing.

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Stage I and stage II

• Patients with stage I and II RCC often have their
  cancers surgically removed by either removes
  parts of the kidney or the entire kidney is
  called nephrectomy. Other than as part of a
  clinical trial, additional (adjuvant) treatments
  such as targeted therapy, chemotherapy, radiation
  therapy, or immunotherapy after surgery for stage
  I or stage II RCC are usually not recommended, as
  the benefit of additional therapy has not been
  proven.

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• Patients who are unable to have surgery because
  of other serious medical problems are often
  treated by other local treatment such as
  cryoablation, radiofrequency ablation, or
  arterial embolization. With surgical treatment,
  the 5-year survival for stage I patients is
  between 88 and 100 and 65 to 75 for stage II.

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Stage III

• Radical nephrectomy is the most common treatment
  option for stage III RCC. Sometimes, a patient
  will have an arterial embolization procedure in
  attempt to reduce the amount of bleeding during
  nephrectomy. There is no distant metastasis in
  stage III, however if the cancer extends into
  nearby veins, the surgeon may need to cut open
  these veins and to completely remove the cancer.
  The 5-year survival for stage III patients varies
  widely and is between 40 and 70, depending on
  the local extent of the cancer.

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Stage IV, IL-2, and everolimus.

• Treatment of stage IV kidney cancer depends on
  how extensive the cancer is and on the person's
  general health. In some cases, surgery may still
  be a choice. When one or a few metastases are
  present and the surgeon considers it possible to
  remove them without serious side effects, an
  aggressive surgical approach to removing the
  kidney tumor and these metastases may be
  beneficial. For cancers that can't be removed
  surgically (because of the extent of the tumor or
  a person's health), first-line treatment would
  likely be one of the targeted therapies or
  cytokine therapy.

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• For some patients, palliative treatments such as
  embolization or radiation therapy may be the best
  option. Surgery or radiation therapy can also be
  used to help reduce pain or other symptoms of
  metastases in some other places, such as the
  bones. (How to relieve cancer pain)

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Recurrent RCC

• In rare cases, a patient will have a solitary
  site of recurrence of RCC detected several years
  after nephrectomy. In these exceptional cases,
  surgical removal of the solitary site of
  recurrence may be possible after extensive
  imaging tests have shown no other evidence of
  cancer spread. Otherwise, treatment with targeted
  therapies or cytokine immunotherapy will be
  recommended. Clinical trials of new treatments
  are an option as well.

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• Beat Renal Cell Carcinoma http//www.beatrcc.com/
  is a great website which provides all kinds of
  information about kidney cancer (Renal Cell
  Carcinoma), including causes, symptoms,
  diagnosis, staging, diet nutrition, treatment
  and prognosis, and other related topics such as
  qigong, traditional Chinese medicine, etc.

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