Early-stage kidney cancer is limited to the kidney, usually under seven centimeters and often has a very good prognosis when treated promptly.

Unlike many other cancers, kidney cancer often presents no early warning signs . The disease typically grows silently and is ...

Diagnosing kidney cancer involves a series of blood and urine tests as well as imaging tests — such as an ultrasound, X-ray, CT or MRI scans — to check the size of the tumor or spread of the cancer. A ...

Abdominal ultrasound or CT scans done during health screenings or for unrelated issues often reveal the presence of kidney ...

The incidence of diagnosed kidney tumors continues to rise each year, with the greatest increase seen in the number of small, incidentally discovered tumors less than 4 cm in size. With a better ...

Age range was 25 to 83 years, and tumor size ranged from 0.63 to 16.90 mL in volume and 1.0 to 3.6 cm in maximum diameter.

While kidney cancer surgeries have risen three or four times in the last 30 to 40 years, “there hasn’t been a change in the number of patients dying per year and that has led our ...

If you have localized kidney cancer and you have not had treatment yet, our urologists are the experts who will plan and provide your care. Your first visit will be with this type of physician. Most ...