Informative Essay On Kidney Cancer

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Over 10,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with Kidney Cancer every year. Kidney Cancer is a type of disease that no person would ever want to be diagnosed with. It is the eighth most common type of cancer in adults. Background history of Kidney Cancer includes symptoms, treatments, cures, tests, ways to help diagnose the disease, and the effect of someone’s everyday life. People over 60 years of age are more likely to get Kidney Cancer than people below 50 years old. I chose this disease to do research on because my gram, Katherine Swinehert, she was diagnosed with Kidney Cancer. She passed away in 2009 on January 18. The Kidney Cancer got into my grandmother kidney’s to fast before the doctors could even do anything to try and …show more content…

This cancer creates kidney failure in the human body. When the kidneys fail the body starts to fill up with extra water and waste products which is called urema. When this happens the people’s hands and feet start to swell up and people will also start to feel extremely tired and very weak. People know they have kidney cancer if the doctors find a lump or signs of the kidney cancer during a test for diseases. People can get kidney cancer numerous ways, but the most common way is smoking. The chemical from smoking tobacco can get into your urine and it can be very damaging to the kidneys. In men it is believed that 30% of Kidney Cancer is found and about 25% of Kidney Cancer is found in women. Men are usually the ones that are affected with Kidney Cancer. It usually happens in men because back in the old day’s men smoked cigarettes more than women have. Someone could also get Kidney Cancer from obesity and it can cause 25% of Kidney Cancer, high blood pressure, radiation therapy or carcinogenic chemical, and a long-term use of pain killers (phenacetin), or even faulty gene which runs in some families. Only 5% of Kidney Cancer runs in the families. Test like computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can show whether someone has Kidney Cancer or not. Usually, doctors prefer these two types of test because of the cancer running in people’s

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