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175,000 [ 5 ] Kidney cancer, also known as renal cancer, is a group of cancers that starts in the kidney. [ 4 ] Symptoms may include blood in the urine, a lump in the abdomen, or back pain. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Fever, weight loss, and tiredness may also occur. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Complications can include spread to the lungs or brain.
In medicine, proton therapy, or proton radiotherapy, is a type of particle therapy that uses a beam of protons to irradiate diseased tissue, most often to treat cancer.The chief advantage of proton therapy over other types of external beam radiotherapy is that the dose of protons is deposited over a narrow range of depth; hence in minimal entry, exit, or scattered radiation dose to healthy ...
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a kidney cancer that originates in the lining of the proximal convoluted tubule, a part of the very small tubes in the kidney that transport primary urine. RCC is the most common type of kidney cancer in adults, responsible for approximately 90–95% of cases. [ 1 ] It is more common in men (with a male-to-female ...
Modern radiation therapy aims to reduce side effects to a minimum and to help the patient understand and deal with side effects that are unavoidable. The main side effects reported are fatigue and skin irritation, like a mild to moderate sun burn. The fatigue often sets in during the middle of a course of treatment and can last for weeks after ...
Radiation-induced cancer. Exposure to ionizing radiation is known to increase the future incidence of cancer, particularly leukemia. The mechanism by which this occurs is well understood, but quantitative models predicting the level of risk remain controversial. The most widely accepted model posits that the incidence of cancers due to ionizing ...
The National Cancer Institute estimates that there were nearly 82,000 new kidney cancer diagnoses in 2023. Anywhere from 10% to 50% develop symptoms of anxiety and/or depression after diagnosis ...
Radionuclide therapy(RNT, also known as unsealed source radiotherapyor molecular radiotherapy) uses radioactivesubstances called radiopharmaceuticalsto treat medical conditions, particularly cancer. These are introduced into the body by various means (injectionor ingestionare the two most commonplace) and localise to specific locations ...
Dose fractionation effects are utilised in the treatment of cancer with radiation therapy. When the total dose of radiation is divided into several, smaller doses over a period of several days, there are fewer toxic effects on healthy cells. This maximizes the effect of radiation on cancer and minimizes the negative side effects.