CancerBro explains treatment for metastatic kidney cancer
- 6 years ago
In this video, CancerBro will explain treatment for metastatic kidney cancer. So watch the video carefully to get answers of your questions. Also, if you have some queries, then post them in the comments section. We would love to answer your doubts.
Video Transcript:
And lastly we come to the M staging or metastatic staging for kidney cancer.
This figure shows multiple metastatic deposits in liver.
And here the cancer has spread to the lungs in form of multiple nodular deposits.
It may also spread to peritoneum in form of peritoneal deposits as you can see in the figure.
Metastatic deposits in the adrenal gland without direct extention of the tumor may also be seen.
Sometimes, it may also spread to brain or bones.
Chemotherapy is the mainstay of treatment for patients with metastatic disease.
Nowadays, a lot of oral medications are available for treatment of kidney cancer.
In a patient with metastatic disease anytime after starting chemotherapy, if the surgeon feels that the disease can be surgically resected, then surgical resection maybe done in metastatic disease also.
And rarely, upfront surgical resection maybe done in metastatic disease, with or without chemotherapy later.
But the final decision whether to start chemotherapy, or to do surgery, is taken by oncologists on an individual patient basis, after assessing the exact conditions of the patient, comorbidities, performance status, along with other factors.
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Video Transcript:
And lastly we come to the M staging or metastatic staging for kidney cancer.
This figure shows multiple metastatic deposits in liver.
And here the cancer has spread to the lungs in form of multiple nodular deposits.
It may also spread to peritoneum in form of peritoneal deposits as you can see in the figure.
Metastatic deposits in the adrenal gland without direct extention of the tumor may also be seen.
Sometimes, it may also spread to brain or bones.
Chemotherapy is the mainstay of treatment for patients with metastatic disease.
Nowadays, a lot of oral medications are available for treatment of kidney cancer.
In a patient with metastatic disease anytime after starting chemotherapy, if the surgeon feels that the disease can be surgically resected, then surgical resection maybe done in metastatic disease also.
And rarely, upfront surgical resection maybe done in metastatic disease, with or without chemotherapy later.
But the final decision whether to start chemotherapy, or to do surgery, is taken by oncologists on an individual patient basis, after assessing the exact conditions of the patient, comorbidities, performance status, along with other factors.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel to know more about kidney cancer.
CancerBro is also active on most social media channels. Follow him to get rich and authoritative content related to cancer awareness, risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, etc.
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Website - http://www.cancerbro.com/