Cellular cancer of the kidney: treatment, prognosis

In recent years, cases have increased when doctors diagnose clear-celled kidney cancer. How to treat this disease and what can you expect in the future? You can understand this if you first understand that this tumor represents itself and how it differs from other types of malignant neoplasms.

What is it about?

Light-celled hyper-nephritic kidney cancer, as a rule, is formed in the tissue lining the proximal nephron canals. Cases of defeat of the cup-and-pelvis system are recorded less frequently. With respect to other subspecies of oncological diseases, this is not too common, as it is diagnosed in about two percent of all patients with oncology. At the moment it belongs to the tenth position on the frequency of occurrence in the world.

Every year on our planet the diagnosis of "light-celled kidney cancer" is put to 250 thousand people. Another hundred thousand people die every year because of this disease. Statistics show that, to a large extent, the clear-celled renal cell carcinoma of the kidney more often affects the inhabitants of large cities. Risk group - people aged 50 to 70 years.

How to treat?

If the clear-celled kidney cancer is diagnosed, the treatment can be versatile. You can use folk remedies and additional therapy, but you can not neglect what doctors recommend. It is necessary to strictly follow the instructions for taking medications and in due time to undergo the prescribed procedures. If doctors recommend an operative way of treating the disease, it is worth to trust their experience.

Usually, the tactics of treating the disease are selected immediately, once the final diagnosis was established and the stage of development of the disease reached. In this case, doctors assess:

• Age of the patient;
• General condition of the body;
• Which gave the clear-celled cancer of the kidney metastasis;
• How great are the lesions of neighboring organs, tissues.

Effective techniques: surgery

If the clear-celled kidney cancer is diagnosed, doctors offer to use all the possibilities of modern medicine, first of all - working in the field of surgery. It is believed that surgery is the most effective method of fighting the disease.

With this method of oncology treatment, the physician gets full access to the affected organs and tissues of the patient and can select the optimal removal option on the spot, decide how large a zone needs to be removed and how to do it. There is it as follows:

1. Bandaged blood vessels leading to the kidneys.
2. The whole block of affected tissues is removed: kidney, tumor, cellulose.
3. Lymphodissection is done.

We call for help immunity

Very good results, if the clear-celled kidney cancer was diagnosed, allows to achieve immune therapy. This is a method that effectively destroys transformed cells of tissues.

With the diagnosis of "light-celled kidney cancer," the microl preparation "Interleukin-2" is used in the first place. It is distinguished by active influence on tumor tissues, which leads to lysis of the neoplasm. Additionally, the agent acts on the activity of T-lymphocytes. These cells begin to produce the active substance.

Another tool that has proven itself in medical practice is the drug Interferon-alpha-2a. It can be combined with the aforementioned drug. This combination gives the brightest result.

Chemotherapy against cancer

If the doctors have identified a clear-celled kidney cancer, the predictions after removal largely depend on what therapy is used. If it was decided to resort to surgery, this does not mean that the treatment is exhausted by the surgical table. After that, you will have to go through a rather long course of chemotherapy. Assign it before surgery.

Drugs that can be used to fight kidney cancer:

• "Cisplatinum."
• Doxorubicin.
• "Methotrexate."
• "Vinblastine."

In some cases, doctors recommend treatment with drugs containing platinum. Medication can be combined with Gemcitabine.

Remember that chemotherapy as an independent method of controlling the disease can not be applied, since its effectiveness is too low. This is only an additional measure that makes treatment more effective and qualitative.

Radiation therapy

A palliative agent for kidney cancer is radiation therapy. Effective in the case when the disease provoked metastases in the patient's bones. Radiation therapy can reduce pain syndrome.

It is used as a fractionation of 3 Gy. The duration of the course is two weeks. Frequency - 10 times. In some cases, appoint 4 Gy for 5 times. Then the rate is reduced to a week. Statistics show that 80% of cases can be achieved in reducing the pain syndrome.

Hormones against cancer

Hormonal drugs alone will not help to defeat kidney cancer, but their main advantage is the ability to slow the growth of a malignant neoplasm. A fairly wide range of medicines is used, the most effective ones are shown:

• "Tamoxifen."
• Medroxyprogesterone.

In general, statistics show that one can rely on the best outcome options only when the therapy combined several methods. Surgery is the most important stage of an integrated approach, but it is important to maintain the strength of the patient's body in other known ways.

What to expect?

If the doctors have detected a clear cell carcinoma of the kidney, the prognosis depends on the stage at which the disease was found. Much is also determined by the nature of oncology and whether metastases are present, how active they are. Of course, the detection of cancer at the initial stage increases the likelihood of a successful outcome.

If it was possible to diagnose the disease at the first stage, then the five-year survival rate exceeds 90%. At the second stage this indicator varies about 70-75%. At the third stage, the five-year survival rate is not more than 65%. Finally, at the last stage of the disease, when the oncology hit the lymph nodes and the tumor sprouted into the distant organs and tissues, about 10-40% of the patients survive five years after the end of the therapy.

Some features

In the event that a tumor with a diameter not exceeding three centimeters was detected, removal by resection is permitted. Regardless of how large the education is, it is possible to resort to this method with surgery only if the patient has only one kidney.

In the last few years, scientists have been able to develop several new techniques for tumor removal. The most famous innovative medical technologies:

• Cybernetic knife;
• Ablation at radio frequencies;
• Embolization of the renal artery.

All these methods allowed doctors to quickly and qualitatively remove the tumor in the most difficult cases. As statistics show, in recent years doctors have been increasingly treating those patients who, even 5-7 years ago, would have been classified as hopeless. But do not even try to choose a method for yourself, it can only be done by a specialist with high qualifications. The oncologist examines the condition of the patient's body and gets acquainted with his individual characteristics, on the basis of which he makes the final conclusion about the possibility of applying this or that method.

Cancer and quality of life

The extent to which a person can maintain a quality of life depends on how badly the disease affected his body. Undoubtedly, the development of oncology reduces the five-year survival rate, and the forecast is becoming less favorable with each new stage. But even in the case when the patient survived five years after the passage of therapy, the quality of life will never be the same as before.

Of course, the operation gives a good result, but in the future it will be necessary to live without one kidney, which imposes certain restrictions on nutrition and lifestyle, daily activity. Also, doctors will prescribe drug therapy, which will be adhered to literally until the end of life.

Target therapy

This technique has become known to physicians relatively recently and has already shown its effectiveness in the fight against oncology. The method is based on the use of specific drug therapy, which affects cancer cells. A high level of effectiveness is due to tigerism, that is, targeted targeting of active substances. At the same time, healthy cells of the body do not suffer from the use of such medications. This means that side effects are significantly reduced (although not to zero).

When taking the drug, the active substance acts on molecules of the same type and affects the cellular mechanisms that trigger the growth of tumor cells in the diseased organism. The use of such drugs already shows so much efficiency that some scientists suggest to completely replace them with immunotherapy. If possible, these days doctors are trying to use the immune in combination with targeted - this shows good results. The growth of malignant neoplasms is reduced at least twice.

Target therapy is indispensable when radiotherapy and chemotherapy have already shown their ineffectiveness. Medications used:

• The Nexavar.
• "Inlita."
• "Thorisel".

Home methods against cancer

Undoubtedly, the main way to fight cancer is prescribed by the doctor after a complete examination of the patient, but it is allowed to resort to some methods of home treatment in order to maintain the strength of the organism and help healthy cells to fight with the degenerated. First of all, with kidney cancer home treatment is reduced to adherence to a special diet. It is assigned by an oncologist, focusing on the particular case. It is allowed to use only vitamin-rich foods that are easily absorbed by the human body.

It is inadmissible for kidney cancer:

• Smoking;
• drink alcohol.

These restrictions are for life.

Do not use for food:

• Fatty;
• Spicy;
• Sharp.

You can try to drink infusions, brewed on the following herbs:

• Rhodiola;
• Highlander;
• Ayr;
• Chaga;
• Horsetail;
• nettle.