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Stage 4 Kidney Cancer Left Untreated Organs Failure
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What Is It?
In kidney failure the kidneys lose their ability to filter enough waste products from the blood and to regulate the body's balance of salt and water. Eventually, the kidneys slow their production of urine or stop producing it completely. Waste products and water accumulate in the body. This can lead to a potentially life-threatening overload of fluids (such as congestive heart failure), a dangerous accumulation of waste products in the blood and extreme changes in blood chemistry...
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