What are the causes of kidney cancer?

What are the causes of kidney cancer? Kidney cancer is a disease with a high incidence rate. Its occurrence has brought serious harm to people's physical and mental health, and also caused many inconveniences to patients' lives. So what are the causes of kidney cancer? Let's get to know them.

1. Smoking:

A large number of prospective observations have found that smoking is a major cause of kidney cancer. The relative risk factor (RR) of smokers for kidney cancer is 2, and those who have smoked for more than 30 years and smoked unfiltered cigarettes have an increased risk of kidney cancer.

(ii) Occupation:

There are reports that workers in metal shops, newspaper printers, coke workers, dry cleaners, and petrochemical workers have an increased risk of kidney cancer and death.

(III) Radiation:

Statistics show that 26 of 124 tumors caused by a weak alpha particle radiation source were confined to the kidney, but there are no reports on the correlation between radiation exposure and kidney cancer in radiation workers and victims of atomic bomb explosions.

(IV) Heredity:

Some families have kidney cancer, which is discovered during chromosome examination. People with a high incidence of kidney cancer have defects in the third pair of chromosomes. Most familial kidney cancers occur at an early age and tend to be multifocal and bilateral. There is a rare genetic disease, hereditary varicocele (VHP), in which up to 28% to 45% of patients develop kidney cancer. This shows that the cause of kidney cancer is also related to genetic factors.

Now, everyone should have an understanding of the causes of kidney cancer. I hope everyone will pay more attention to some details in daily life and actively do preventive work so that they can effectively prevent the occurrence of kidney cancer and keep themselves healthy.