Removing a kidney stops the cancer from progressing 5
Ms. Nga (An Giang) has sharp pain in her abdomen and right back, sometimes hot in her body, for the past two months.
On August 28, Associate Professor Vu Le Chuyen, Director of the Center for Urology – Nephrology – Andrology, said that she had a 6 cm malignant (cancerous) tumor in her right kidney, the tumor bud eating into a large blood vessel.
Ms. Nga’s malignant tumor is in the localized stage with no signs of metastasis to other organs.
During surgery, if the team causes the bud to burst and float through the bloodstream and not treated promptly, the patient may die.
She went to many doctors and advised surgery, but she refused due to fear of pain.
The team operated on Ms. Nga’s kidney tumor.
Doctors predict that the surgery will be complicated due to the patient’s age and underlying cardiovascular disease, so they should carefully prepare the surgery plan.
A few hours after surgery, Mrs. Nga could talk to her children and grandchildren.
Associate Professor Chuyen said a kidney tumor is a mass or group of cells that grow abnormally on the kidney, with diverse sizes.
Kidney cancer in the early stages often has no obvious symptoms.
Doctors recommend that everyone have a health check every year to screen for kidney cancer as well as other health abnormalities, early treatment is highly effective, and avoids dangerous complications.
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