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Kidney Cancer Diagnosis
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Since it is common for a person with kidney cancer not to have any symptoms in the early stages, a kidney tumor sometimes is identified by accident when X-rays of the abdomen are taken to evaluate a different health problem. More often, Kidney cancer is found after someone has complained of symptoms or during an evaluation to determine why laboratory tests are abnormal.
Abnormal laboratory signs can be the first clue that someone has kidney cancer, and some of them are caused by the...
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