Kidney Cancers Can be Cured

Aug 22, 2011 by Alexander

“If you can do early detection, proper treatment, the vast majority of kidney cancer can be cured.” Expert, said: “Although kidney cancer is a malignant tumor, but the effect of early surgical treatment of kidney cancer is very good, many patients can achieve healing effect. “

“If the development of advanced renal cell carcinoma, the treatment it is very difficult, radical surgery patients also lost the opportunity.” Expert added: “The kidney is very special, its traditional chemotherapy or hormone therapy is not sensitivity, clinical used interleukin-2 and interferon Although you can shrink the tumor but only 10% -20% of patients respond to these drugs, but more serious side effects, patients with an average survival of only 10 months in recent years target to the emergence of drug treatment, advances in the treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma is the U.S. Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2005 annual meeting the results of published studies show that multi-target drugs Nexavar targeted therapy in patients with advanced kidney cancer can progress without survival overall survival time was significantly longer (39%). ”

The treatment of advanced tumors of good news emerging is certainly exciting, but its treatment is early treatment with relatively large gap between the tumor. To achieve early detection of cancer, the importance of people’s health and the concept of progress is much higher than the advances in medical technology. Like a very obvious early symptoms of kidney cancer, many patients were accidentally discovered by physical examination, with the symptoms to the hospital only has to find the most advanced, the concept of difference is the prognosis of the disease caused by a huge difference. Therefore, Zhou Fangjian recommend the best people over the age of 40 months to do a physical examination, although the tumor can not be one hundred percent, but at least 80% can be detected early, like the kidney can be found through the normal B-.Physical examination and doctors can better after full status according to their custom, the choice of the hospital should also have some relevance, such as colon cancer there is a certain degree of familial aggregation, and if such patients at home, then their best to include physical examination on a regular colonoscopy examination, and the best selection in this disease may have more experience in the hospital, so as to achieve more with less.

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Compared with lung cancer, breast cancer and other common than kidney seemed a bit “unknown” in China, accounting for all cancers of the 2% -3%, but in all of the urinary system tumors, bladder cancer is second only to the firstthe second largest killer, and its incidence is rising. Males than females.In some areas, kidney cancer has become a top ten ranked men’s tumors.

Around 208,500 new cases of kidney cancer are diagnosed in the world each year, accounting for just under 2% of all cancers. The highest rates are recorded in Northern America and the lowest rates in Asian and African regions.

In the United States in 2008, these two types together are estimated to cause 54,390 new cases and 13,010 deaths.

2005. The most recent estimates of incidence of kidney cancer suggest that there are 63,300 new cases annually in the EU25. In Europe, kidney cancer accounts for nearly 3% of all cancer cases.

In the UK kidney cancer is the eighth most common cancer in men, with 4,622 new cases diagnosed in 2005. This compares to 2,758 new cases of kidney cancer in women, giving a male:female ratio of 1.5:1. In women it is the fourteenth most common cancer. Male kidney cancer incidence rates increased by more than 85% from 7.1 per 100,000 in 1975 to 13.4 per 100,000 in 2005. In women the rates have more than doubled over the same period from 3.2 to 6.6 per 100,000. Most of the increase has occurred in older men and women, with rates more than doubling between 1975 and 2005 for men in their 70s and early 80 and women aged 65 and over. The incidence of the disease in Britain has an aspect ratio of 50.6% of the final exitus( quote by Welsh Cancer Intelligence, 2005 ). 

The incidence of kidney cancer is increasing also in the United States, and this increase is thought to be real, at least in part, not due only to changes in diagnostic practices.

Some types of kidney cancer have a known hereditary or familial risk, and to date five hereditary syndromes have been associated with renal cell carcinoma.