renal cancer
About 8300 adults die each year from kidney cancer. An
estimated 18100 new cases are diagnosed each year, comprising 2%
of all cancers. The average age at diagnosis is 55-60 years.
- adenocarcinoma ("hypernephroma")
- 80% of renal Ca
- 66% male
- associated with smoking
- transitional cell or squamous Ca
- 15% of renal Ca
- 50% male
- associated with calculous disease
Excretory urography may reveal the primary lesion, the degree
of local extension and evidence of compression or deviation of the
ureter.
REF: Rubin P. Clinical Oncology. Chapter 17.
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