Q. What is the best treatment for renal cancer?
Doctor Answer is medically reviewed by SecondMedic medical review team.
The best treatment for renal cancer depends on several factors, including the size and location of the tumor, its type, overall health of the patient and other associated conditions. Generally speaking, there are 3 main types of treatment for renal cancer: surgery, radiation therapy and targeted drug therapy.
Surgery is typically used to remove the cancerous growth from the kidney or to remove an entire kidney if needed. If a tumor is small enough it can be surgically removed with minimally invasive laparoscopic techniques which involve only small incisions in the abdomen or back wall. Large tumors may require open surgery where larger incisions are made into either side of your lower abdomen to access the kidney directly through this route.
Radiation therapy uses X-ray beams or protons to shrink or destroy lung tumors that cannot be surgically removed. External beam radiation therapies target localized areas while systemic radiation (brachytherapy) is performed inside body cavities close to affected areas such as lymph nodes near a tumor site. Radiosurgery (stereotactic radiosurgery) also delivers high doses of focused energy aimed at destroying actively dividing cells within smaller affected regions such as brain cells following traumatic injury or head injuries due to stroke etc..
Targeted drug therapy focuses on providing targeted treatments depending on certain characteristics present in individual patients. This includes monoclonal antibody drugs like Tecentriq/Atezolizumab which block growth signals from reaching cancer cells helping reduce their spread as well controlling immunotherapy drugs like Keytruda/Pembrolizumab which stimulate immune system attacks against specific cancerous molecules called antigens only found in certain cancers such as melanoma and NSCLC (non–small cell lung carcinoma). There have been promising results when combining these two types of treatments together with very good success rates in some instances leading to complete remission even after many years since initial diagnosis being reported by providers worldwide today!
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