kidney and urinary tract disorders
Kidney Cancer
Introduction
Most solid kidney tumors are cancerous, but purely fluid-filled tumors (cysts) generally are not. Almost all kidney cancer is renal cell carcinoma. Another kind of kidney cancer, Wilms Tumor , occurs primarily in children. Kidney cancer may cause blood in the urine, pain in the side, or fever. Cancer is most often detected by accident when an imaging test is done for another reason. Diagnosis is by computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. Removing the kidney prolongs survival and may be curative if cancer has not spread. Kidney cancer accounts for about 2 to 3% of cancers in adults, affecting about twice as many men as women. About 81,800 people develop kidney cancer each year, and about 14,890 die of it (2023 estimates). People who smoke are about twice as likely to develop kidney cancer as people who do not smoke. Other risk factors include exposure to toxic chemicals (for example, asbestos, cadmium, and leather tanning and petroleum products) and obesity. People who are undergoing Dialysis and develop 