What is Kidney Cancer

There are several types of cancer can develop in the renal, but one thing is common that cells become abnormal ,means body's cells do not able to do their functions properly. These abnormal cells grow and destroy our body's tissue and spread to other parts of our body. Most common kidney cancer is renal cell carcinoma that starts in the cells that line the small tubes within your renal. Children are more likely to develop a kind of renal or kidney cancer called Wilms' tumor.

Causes of Kidney Cancer

Kidneys are very important part of our body. Its main function is to filter our blood. It controls the production of our blood cells and controls your blood pressure. Our kidneys are made of more than a million small filtering units called nephrons. As blood circulates through our kidneys, the nephrons filter out waste products as well as minerals and water that are not required to our body.

Kidney cancer usually begins in the cells. In most of the cases renal cell tumors grow as a single mass but you may have more than one tumor in a kidney or develop tumors in both kidneys.

There are some risk factors which are given below -
1) Smoking
2) Obesity
3) High blood pressure (hypertension).
4) Environmental toxins.
5) Dialysis
6) Radiation
7) Von Hippel-Lindau disease
8) Hereditary papillary renal cell carcinoma

Signs And Symptoms of Kidney Cancer

Common symptoms of Kidney Cancer -
1) Blood in the urine
2) Lump or mass that can be felt in the kidney area.
3) High blood pressure
4) An abnormal number of red blood cells
5) Poor health
6) Feel tired
7) Lose their appetite
8) Lose weight
9) Fever

Treatment

The treatment of kidney cancer is depends on number of factors such as health of the patient, kind of kidney cancer and whether the cancer has spread .There are various method for the treatment of kidney cancer-
1) By surgery
2) Radiation therapy
3) Immunotherapy
4) Chemotherapy

Prevention

Take some precautions to reduce your cancer risk -
1) Take healthy diet
2) Avoid smoking
3) Stay physically active
4) Try to reduce high blood pressure
5) Try to reduce exposure to environmental toxins.
6) Maintain a healthy weight