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Kidney Cancer Treatment Options at The Kidney Cancer Institute
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- Dr. Landman is the Director of Minimally Invasive Urology at the Department of Urology of Columbia University. He serves as a full time faculty member of the New York Presbyterian Hospital, and is the Director of the Columbia University Minimally Invasive Urologic Oncology Fellowship.
Treatment Option Information
- Active Surveillance
- Laparoscopic Kidney Cryoablation
- Percutaneous Kidney Cryoablation
- Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy
- DaVinci Robotic Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy
- Open Partial Nephrectomy
- Laparoscopic Radical Nephrectomy
- Open Radical Nephrectomy
- Laparoscopic Cytoreductive Nephrectomy
- Open Cytoreductive Nephrectomy
- Open Nephrectomy with Vena Caval Reconstruction
What is Kidney Cancer
"Kidney cancer" is not a disease per se, but rather is a group of cancers that arise form different parts of the kidney tubules. Recently, a panel of experts convened a consensus conference in Heidelberg, Germany. The Heidelberg classification was devised based on a number of well-recognized parameters. Kidney cancers were divided into the following subtypes: Common or conventional renal cell carcinoma, papillary renal cell carcinoma, chromophobe renal cell carcinoma, collecting duct carcinoma (including medullary carcinoma), and renal cell carcinoma, which cannot be classified. This expert panel also classified benign kidney growths such as metanephric adenoma, metanephric adenofibroma, and renal oncocytoma. When kidney cancers are classified by the Heidelberg system, there is a significant difference in outcome, with patients having the conventional kidney cancer type having a worse overall prognosis compared to the other kidney cancer types.
Signs and Symptoms Associated with Kidney Cancer
- Blood in urine (“hematuria”)
- Pain in the back just below the ribs
- A mass that can be felt
- Unexplained weight loss which can sometimes be rapid
- Intermittent fevers or night sweats
- Fatigue and lethargy
- Fever that is not associated with a cold or the flu
- Pain in other parts of the body if the cancer has spread
