Kidney Cancer

Kidney Cancer

Kidney Cancer is Renal Manifestations of Malignant Disease is a disease affecting the Kidneys.

Statistics Kidney Disease :

Kidney disease caused by cancer outside the kidneys and urinary system can be classified into two major groups:

 1. Cancers that cause glomerular disease.

 2. Cancers that cause tubular disease. 

The incidence of each of these conditions is difficult to measure, for each may be induced by more than one form of cancer. Estimates have suggested that glomerular disease is the first symptom in 0.1-10% of patients with an otherwise unknown cancer. Tubular disease is more common to the blood borne cancers such as leukaemia and lymphoma. Up to 50% of patients who have died from leukaemia or lymphoma have been shown to have bilateral renal involvement in the disease process.

Risk Factors for Kidney Cancer

Essentially the predisposing factors for cancer associated renal disease is the the presence of the causative cancer itself. Each of these cancers in turn, will have its own associated risk factors for occurrence, which are referenced in Virtual Cancer Centre. 

Glomerular Disease:

 1. Lymphoproliferative Malignancy: Hodgkin’s lymphoma and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

 2. Solid tumours: Lung, gastrointestinal, breast, kidney and ovary.

Tubular Disease: 

1. Leukaemia 

2. Lymphoproliferative Malignancy: Hodgkin’s disease and Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.

3. Multiple myeloma 4. Amyloidosis