The kidneys and the types of kidney cancer, how it's diagnosed and treated, and rehabilitation after treatment.
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Smoking, obesity, and high blood pressure can create fertile ground for kidney cancer to develop. More rarely, genetic mutations inherited from family can be the cause, and these cases carry some important differences. Learn more about the signs and symptoms of hereditary kidney cancer.
The kidneys are the primary organs of the urinary system. They filter the blood, remove the wastes, and also maintain a healthy balance of water, salts, and minerals in your blood. Without this balance, nerves, muscles, and other tissues in your body may not work normally.
Kidney cancer forms in the lining of tiny tubes inside your kidneys. Symptoms are hard to detect at first, but may start to appear as the cancer grows. Some symptoms include blood in the urine, weight loss for no reason, and loss of appetite. Read more about the signs and symptoms that may point to kidney cancer, and the treatment options available.
Renal Oncocytoma 
Wilms Tumor 
Translocation Renal Cell Carcinoma 
Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma 
Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma 
Transitional Cell Cancer of the Renal Pelvis and Ureter 
Birt-Hogg-Dubé Syndrome 
Hereditary Papillary Renal Carcinoma (Health Professional Version) 
Von Hippel-Lindau Disease 
Hereditary Leiomyomatosis and Renal Cell Cancer 
Denys-Drash Syndrome Your kidneys filter and clean your blood. Kidneys that function properly are critical for maintaining good health. Read about the laboratory tests that doctors use to diagnose and monitor kidney diseases.
Living with kidney disease involves day-to-day choices that protect the kidneys. A kidney diet limits foods that make them work harder, medicines help control blood pressure and other effects of the disease, and everyday habits, from staying active to working with a health care team, help people stay well.
Kidney cancer research covers advances in understanding, detecting and treating kidney cancer. It follows what recent studies have found about the disease and how researchers are turning those findings into new ways to diagnose and treat it.
Clinician summaries of kidney cancer, written for health professionals. They cover the treatment of renal cell cancer, Wilms tumor and transitional cell cancer of the renal pelvis and ureter, and inherited syndromes that raise the risk: von Hippel-Lindau disease, Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome and hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer.
Wilms Tumor and Other Childhood Kidney Tumors Treatment (Health Professional Version) 
Birt-Hogg-Dubé Syndrome (Health Professional Version) 
Von Hippel-Lindau Disease (Health Professional Version) 
Renal Cell Cancer Treatment (Health Professional Version) 
Hereditary Leiomyomatosis and Renal Cell Cancer (Health Professional Version) 
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