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Kidney Cancer Prognosis
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Contact your doctor if you see blood in your urine, notice an abnormal lump or swelling in your abdomen, have persistent abdominal pain or experience unexplained weight loss or fatigue.
Prognosis
If the tumor is diagnosed early, before it breaks through the outer covering of the kidney, the kidney cancer has the potential to be cured by surgery. This is the case for about half of all people with kidney cancer. If the cancer is removed and the surrounding areas are...
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