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kidney cancer causes and symptoms?

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Spontaneous: Renal cell cancer
 may be asymptomatic
large palpable mass
urinary blood
back pain
pulmonary emboli from venous extension.

Question 2

what are symptoms of kidney cancer?

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Blood in urine: Or abdominal pain.

Question 3

does kidney cancer usually cause many symptoms?

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It depends: It depends on the extend of disease.  Patients with kidney cancer  can present with a range of symptoms; unfortunately, many patients are without symptoms until the disease is advanced.Clinical manifestation may include- blood in the urine, weakness, low grade fever, decreased apetite, abdominal /pelvic discomfort , etc.

Question 4

what are symptoms of a child with kidney cancer ?

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The common: Scenario is mom or dad bathing the baby and feeling a mass in the belly.  The findings are of a growing mass over time, not the kidney not working. Sometimes the mass is large enough to cause poor feeding and vomiting.

Question 5

what symptoms usually go along with kidney cancer?

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Several: Many kidney cancers these days are found on cat scans that have been done for other reasons than looking for kidney cancer. Symptoms can include weight loss, flank pain, blood in the urine, fatigue. If detected in early stages, kidney cancer is highly curable with removal of the affected kidney, or sometimes, removal of part of the kidney.

Question 6

can someone tell me the early symptoms of a kidney cancer?

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Blood in urine: There are no good early symptoms, other than small quantities of blood in urine that may require microscopic examination of urine.  Other symptoms may be flank discomfort, ruddiness of coomplexion, weakness and renal colic if there are blood cloots due to frank bleeding.

Question 7

what symptoms would a person have if they have kidney cancer?

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Often none: A long time ago, kidney cancer was often diagnosed by flank pain, abdominal fullness, and blood in the urine. However, people rarely had all 3 symptoms. Nowadays, most people are diagnosed incidentally, when they are getting a ct scan for something else.

Question 8

what are the symptoms you would get in a case of kidney cancer?

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Depend on stage: In majority cases-in early stage-usually there are no significant symptoms. In more advanced disease-patiemts start to become more symptomatic especially when the cancer starts to spread to distant organ. Symptom may include- flank/abdominal pain, weight loss, anemia, blood in the urine, fever, fatigue/malaise, etc.

Question 9

if my kidney hurts and symptoms are a lot like kidney cancer, should i get checked out?

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See below: It is unlikely that a person can localize pain to the kidney. It would have helped if you had listed the symptoms, as early kidney cancer may not have any. If you must, discuss it with your doctor.
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Question 10

do you know the signs and symptoms of kidney cancer in adults?

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Blood, pain, mass.: There is a classic triad of hematuria (blood in urine), flank pain, and abdominal mass this presents with, but is seen in only 10-20% of patients.  Hematuria (40%), flank pain (40%), mass (33%), and weight loss (33%) are the most common individual syndromes.  Paraneoplastic syndromes-erythrocytosis (3%), hypercalcemia (5%), and nonmetastatic hepatic dysfunction (stauffer's syndrome) (15%) occur.

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