What is Cancer? Cancer is a group of over 100 hundred diseases identified by abnormal uncontrolled cell growth. Its ability to control the normal function and growth of the cell is lost, and escape the normal control mechanisms, then …show more content…
grow into cancer and spreads rapidly, sometimes called a malignant tumor. Cancer is the #1 leading disease that kills most Americans. Anyone, at any age, race, or color can get cancer, anywhere in the body. There are many kinds of cancer, and all are very different and require various types of treatment.
The Cancer of my choice for research is kidney cancer, sometimes called renal cancer.
Renal cancer is a form of cancer that starts in the kidney. Just as there are many kinds of cancer there many kinds of each cancer. Renal cell cancer is known as renal cell carcinoma. If you start to urinate blood, and it's consistent along with lower pelvic, abdomen pains it's a sign that you have some cancer in your kidney. Having kidney cancer comes along with unusual tiredness, lumps that appear in the abdomen come with sharp stabs, lumps deep in the abdomen are hard to detect and if the patient is not in good health treatment would be really hard.
The treatment for kidney cancer are surgery, radio frequency ablation and arterial embolization. These treatments can treat the various kinds of kidney cancer and may not, but the treatment also depends on the size of the tumor and how many tumors in each kidney. Life expectancy for patients with kidney cancer are given five years if it's localized and not spread, having large tumors. Living with kidney cancer can be hard, that's at the American Cancer Society will help anyone with cancer to get treatment, and advise. Just go to www.cancer.org or you can call the American Cancer Society at
1800-227-2345.