Patient with renal tumors Flashcards
What’s the most common renal cancer?
Renal cell carcinoma - 85% of all renal cell malignancies
Presentation of renal cell carcinomas
Variety of symptoms including:
- haematuria (50%)
- loin pain (40%)
- mass (30%)
- 25% may have symptoms of metastasis
- less than 10% have the classic triad of haematuria, pain and mass
What’s the classic triad of renal cancer?
haematuria, pain and mass
*seen in <10% patients
Management of T1 renal cancers
T1 lesions may be managed by partial nephrectomy
*this gives equivalent oncological results to total radical nephrectomy (at the mass is limited at that stage)
Management of T2 renal cancer
For T2 lesions and above
- radical nephrectomy
(performed via a laparoscopic or open approach)
What do we need to at early stages of surgery for renal cancer?
During surgery early venous control is mandatory to avoid shedding of tumour cells into the circulation
What is the management of a patient with Transitional Cell cancer?
Patients with transitional cell cancer will require a nephroureterectomy with disconnection of the ureter at the bladder
Types of renal cancer (2) general devision
A. Renal Cells Ca
B. Urothelium-based cancers
Types of renal cell carcinoma
Renal Cell Ca:
- clear cell
- papillary
- collecting duct
- renal medullary
Types of urothelium - based cancers
Urothelium based cancers
- urothelial carcinoma
- squamous cell carcinoma
- adenocarcinoma
Why would we develop squamous cell carcinoma or adenocarcinoma in cell lining?
Chronic irritation/ inflammation -> dysplasia -> metaplasia -> completly different type of cell- line
*e.g. chronic pyelonephritis, untreated for years stones
Some of the uncommon types of renal cancers
What cancers tend to metastasise to the kidneys?
- breast
- thyroid
- lungs
- adjacent neoplasm (e.g. pancreas, stomach, adrenal) -> local invasion
Factors that increase the risk of renal cancer
- obesity
- smoking (20 a day will double the risk)
- hypertension
- chronic renal failure and dialysis (3-6 x risk)
- thyroid cancer
- previous radiotherapy
- familiar history (1st degree relative with kidney ca -> 2x risk)
- genetics (only 2% of renal cancers)
Some genes associated with kidney cancers (just look)
What renall Ca is von Hippel Lindau associated with?
- clear cell carcinoma
*VHL gene