Kidney cancer, known as renal cancer, is a group of cancers that starts in the kidney.
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11 Facts About Kidney cancer
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Main types of kidney cancer are renal cell cancer, transitional cell cancer, and Wilms tumor.
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Risk factors for RCC and TCC include smoking, certain pain medications, previous bladder Kidney cancer, being overweight, high blood pressure, certain chemicals, and a family history.
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Renal Kidney cancer is more commonly found in populations of urban areas than rural areas.
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Paraneoplastic syndromes caused by kidney cancer can be broadly classified as endocrine and non-endocrine.
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People with suspected kidney cancer should have their kidney function evaluated to help determine treatment options.
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In other words, if the biopsy shows Kidney cancer, there is a 99.
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Incidence of kidney cancer is two times greater in men than in women, and this is thought to be due to biological differences.
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Discrepancies in kidney cancer diagnosis has most likely led to the underrepresentation of mortality and incidence in low income countries.
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Black people with kidney cancer have lower mortality rates than Caucasians in the United States.
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Kidney cancer is the eighth most common cancer in the UK, and it is the fourteenth most common cause of cancer death .
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