by farand » Sun Sep 28, 2014 12:32 pm
Renal carcinomas are not bad if you catch them early enough
to remove them surgically.
If they are beyond surgical resection,
renal carcinomas are very bad news because none of our 100 plus
different chemotherapy treatments work very well if at all
against advanced kidney cancers.
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Karina is wrong about surgeons spreading renal carcinomas at the time of surgery.
That is an old wives' tale.
If it has spread it was spread long before surgery.
Remember that a billion cancer cells makes a mass of 1cm - roughly the size
of a marble.
A million cancer cells is so small that a surgeon cannot see it
and it won't show up on any scans.
People forget that cancers start out as
a microscopic disease and stay microscopic sometimes for years before
they grow large enough to be seen on scans.
If they are symptomatic,
cancers have progressed for a very long time.
Cancer symptoms
are very bad news 'IF' the symptoms are actually caused by the malignancy.
Symptoms often mean the disease is far advanced.
Those "Seven Warning Signals"
for cancer are essentially useless.
Only the one about a skin lesion is useful.