Introduction to small renal tumours and prognostic indicators
Overview Kidney cancer is among the third most common urologic malignancy and it indicates around 4 percent of the total malignancies in the US along. As pre reports, in 2010, 58,000 new cases pertaining to renal cell carcinoma were diagnosed and it has witnessed around 13,000 deaths. And the same report suggests that there is an increment of 2-4 percent of deaths witnessed due to these issues. Most of the cases are reported with small size tumors; hence one can find the stage migration over the incident cases of the renal cancerous tumor. But you can find lesions representing booth the benign and malignant tumors. The terminology called small renal mass can be introduced for all the small size tumors and the small renal masses are seen having defined over enhancing tumor that are less than the 4 centimeter diameter. Understanding the renal tumours and prognostic indicators If you find a small renal mass to be the RCC, it falls under the TNM category. Such kind of masses ...