Kidney cancer

 

Kidney cancer is cancer that forms in tissues of the kidneys. Kidney cancer includes renal cell carcinoma (cancer that forms in the lining of very small tubes in the kidney that filter the blood and remove waste products) and renal pelvis carcinoma (cancer that forms in the center of the kidney where urine collects). It also includes Wilms tumour, which is a type of kidney cancer that usually develops in children usually under the age of 5.

 

This section is intended to help you understand laparoscopic radical nephrectomy for kidney tumours better and give you the opportunity to go ov...

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 Open nephrectomy for renal tumours are still undertaken for large tumours which are not accessible to keyhole (laparoscopic) surgery. ...

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This section is intended to help you understand cryoablation of kidney tumours better and give you the opportunity to go over the details at you...

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Laparoscopic (keyhole) partial nephrectomy has become one of the preferred methods for the treatment of localized, small (< 4 cm) renal ...

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