Kidney Cancer

and today I'd like to speak with you a little bit about kidney cancer . Also called -- cancer. Real refers to the medical term that we call kidneys. Kidneys are to keep me being shaped organs

fact every year in the United States about 51000. Cases a new kidney cancer . Our -- terrorist kidney cancer can occurred both adults and children. It's more common in adults in the most common kind of kidney cancer in adults is called -- cell carcinoma. In children the most common kind of kidney cancer is called will homes tumor this is much less common. The symptoms of kidney cancer are variable depending on where exactly the cancers located in how advanced it is. Probably the most common symptom is blood and -- When it's more advanced you may actually see the blood but often early stages of kidney cancer . You may not see the blood and it's called microscopic. Blood in the year. This is when the blood can only be detected by special tax or in a microscope. Other symptoms. Can be pain in the act to simply doesn't go away or perhaps swollen lymph nodes. Wore -- the kidney cancer has spread to other -- that you may have other problems from those other organs being affected. So what do we do to treat and prevent kidney cancer . Well again it depends -- exactly what kind of kidney cancer it is. And how advanced it is and where it's occurring exactly the most common treatments will be. A combination of surgery. Radiation treatment. And chemotherapy as well it's important to discuss this with your doctor or oncologists. Say they may come up with a good plan for treating your kidney cancer . As far as prevention goes well we don't always know what causes most cancers so it can be a little bit difficult prevent that we you know. -- having healthy diet healthy lifestyle certainly goes a long way preventing kidney cancer as well as most other cancers. There's also an association with cigarette smoke. And so it's important to avoid smoking for many reasons but certainly to -- cancers such as kidney cancer and other cancers. Also certain environmental toxins. Will be processed by your kidneys in these may be toxic to the kidney cells and also be more likely to cause kidney cancer . So. What you need you to try to avoid this or what should you do well if you notice that there's blood in -- hearing you should always tell your doctor. Most often it's not going to be real -- kidney cancer . But it may be something else it needs to be evaluated and treated. It's also important to have your yearly physical checkups with their doctor because we usually screen you're hearing and we may pick up. Blood in the hearing which you wouldn't normally see with the naked -- in this could be an indication of kidney cancer or some other problem that needs to be caught and treated early.