The length of time you can live with stage 4 renal carcinoma is on average of 5 years.
You can survive stage 4 renal carcinoma in some cases if it's been cured although not everyone will survive stage 4 renal carcinoma longer than 5 years.
With metastatic renal cell carcinoma you can live for 2 to 5 years.
The first stage of renal cell carcinoma is stage 1 renal cell carcinoma which is when the kidney tumor is less than 7 centimeters or 2.8 inches and has not spread.
The second stage of renal cell carcinoma is when the kidney tumor is greater than 7 centimeters or 2.8 inches and has not spread and stage 3 renal cell carcinoma is when the tumor of any size is in the kidney and nearby lymph nodes or in the blood vessels and surrounding kidney tissue.
You don't need chemo for renal cell carcinoma as renal cell carcinoma and other kidney cancers don't respond well to chemo.
However some types of chemo drugs like gemcitabine, 5-fluorouracil and cisplatin have helped some people with kidney cancer and renal cell carcinoma.
The organs that are affected by renal cell carcinoma are the kidneys and nearby lymph nodes, the lungs and even the bones when it spreads.
Usually only one kidney is affected by renal cell carcinoma although in rare cases both kidneys can be affected by renal cell carcinoma.
In some cases of renal cell carcinoma they do remove the entire kidney if it has spread too far.
However in other cases only the tumor or part of the the kidney will be removed and sometimes the nearby lymph nodes.
The way they remove renal cell carcinoma is through surgery that involves the removing of the entire tumor in the safest manner.
Surgery for renal cell carcinoma can be done through open incision, robot assisted laparoscopic surgery or regular laparoscopic surgery.
The best treatment for renal cell carcinoma is surgical resection.
Kidney cancer and renal cell carcinoma is most often treated with surgery, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, or a combination of these treatments.
Radiation therapy and chemotherapy are occasionally used in treatment of kidney cancer and renal cell carcinoma.
The age that renal cell carcinoma is most common is ages 50 to 70 years of age although it can occur in any age.
The survival rate for renal cell carcinoma is 93 percent at 5 years and if it has spread to surrounding tissues or organs and or the regional lymph nodes then the 5 year survival rate for renal cell carcinoma is 72 percent.
Renal cell carcinoma pain will feel like sharp pain, a dull ache or pressure.
If you have any kind of sudden or persistent pain that lasts more than a couple of days you should see a doctor.
Renal cell carcinoma does cause pain in the advanced stages.
Renal cell carcinoma is sometimes painful and when renal cell carcinoma is painful it will lead to pain in your back or your side which does not go away.
The first presenting symptom of renal cell carcinoma is pain in your sides along with blood in your urine or a mass in your abdomen.
Renal cell carcinoma often does not cause any symptoms and doctors usually find the renal cell carcinoma tumors during routine imaging tests.
The survival rate of clear cell renal cell carcinoma is 50 to 60 percent at 5 years.
However when the clear cell renal cell carcinoma has spread to other parts of the body or is already large then treatment is more difficult and the 5 year survival rate goes down to 10 percent.
Renal cell carcinoma can sometimes be cured if it is diagnosed and treated while it's still localized to the kidney and has not spread past the immediately surrounding tissue.
The life expectancy of a person with renal cell carcinoma is on average of 5 years.
If the renal cell carcinoma or kidney cancer has spread to surrounding tissues or organs and or the regional lymph nodes then the 5 year survival rate is 72 percent.
Around 2 thirds of people that are diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma are diagnosed with the renal cell carcinoma still in the kidney itself.
Renal cell carcinoma is a type of kidney cancer that begins in the lining of small tubes in the kidney.
Renal cell carcinoma is most common in older men and risk factors for renal cell carcinoma include obesity and cigarette smoking.
Most cases of renal cell carcinoma are symptomless until it has advanced.
When symptoms of renal cell carcinoma do occur they can include flank pain a lump in the abdomen and blood in the urine.
Treatment for renal cell carcinoma includes destroying the tumor with radiowaves or freezing it or through removing the entire kidney.
And if the renal cell carcinoma has spread beyond your kidneys the treatment options include molecularly targeted therapies, localized radiation therapy and immunotherapy.
Renal cell carcinoma is the most common type of kidney cancer.
Although it's a serious disease, finding and treating it early makes it more likely that you'll be cured.
No matter when you're diagnosed, you can do certain things to ease your symptoms and feel better during your treatment.
Just like all carcinomas, ccRCC can spread, or metastasize, to other parts of your body.
Metastatic cancer is more difficult to treat.
When compared to other kidney cancers, the clear cell type of renal cell carcinoma tends to be more aggressive and spread faster.