Overview
About Kidney Cancer
Kidney cancer can be one of the most lethal cancers. However, many kidney tumors are detected at an early stage where they are highly treatable and often curable.
Kidney Cancer
Kidney
Low back pain (unrelated to an injury)
Blood in the urine
Fast, unexplained weight loss
A mass or lump on the side or lower back
Loss of appetite
Fatigue
Recurrent fever
Unrelieved pain the side (flank pain)
Swelling of legs and ankles
High blood pressure (less common)
Anemia (less common)
Smoking
Obesity
Gender: men
Family history
High blood pressure (hypertension)
Diuretics (water pills)
Race: African-American
Asbestos exposure
Cadmium exposure
Advanced kidney disease
Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome
Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome
Hereditary papillary renal cell carcinoma
Hereditary leiomyoma-renal cell carcinoma
Hereditary renal oncocytoma
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