Related articles: Kidney cancer
Definition
Like other organs in our body, the kidney can also be affected by tumors. In adults, the most common form is renal cell carcinoma, which originates from the cells that line the internal tubules of the organ. The disease affects men more frequently and is more common among smokers, obese and hypertensive.Most common symptoms and signs *
- Anemia
- Anorexia
- Asthenia
- Kidney stones
- Pain in a hip
- Kidney pain
- erythrocytosis
- Increased blood urea
- hypercalcemia
- undernourishment
- Livedo Reticularis
- Backache
- Abdominal mass
- Multiple pulmonary nodules
- Solitary pulmonary nodule
- Weight loss
- Polyuria
- Proteinuria
- Blood in the urine
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Uremia
- Dark urine
Further indications
In the early stages, kidney cancer is generally asymptomatic, so much so that in a good percentage of cases it is diagnosed by chance during imaging examinations. Only at an advanced stage can the aforementioned symptoms appear; to specify that the pains in the abdomen and the back are localized to the anatomical center of the two organs (just under the last ribs to lumbar level and to the flanks). Hematuria, lower back pain and the presence of a palpable mass in the abdomen are the symptoms most commonly associated with kidney cancer.
