Probability of recurrence and metastasis of early renal cancer

What is the probability of recurrence and metastasis of early kidney cancer? Many patients and their families will have this question. For this question, many people may think that if early kidney cancer is discovered in time, it should not metastasize after treatment. In fact, this is not always the case. Many patients still have a relatively high risk of metastasis after treatment, so patients must not take it lightly.

Experts say that early-stage renal cancer has the possibility of metastasis. If all tumors cannot be completely removed after surgical treatment of early-stage renal cancer, then metastasis or recurrence is very likely to occur after surgery. There are three main ways for renal cancer to metastasize: direct infiltration, lymphatic metastasis, and vascular metastasis. The lungs are the main part of early renal cancer metastasis and its main pathway. Cancer cells invade the veins from the capillaries and intrarenal veins to the renal veins, forming tumor thrombi in the veins, which can further extend into the inferior vena cava to reach the right atrium, and to the lungs, iliac bones and other organs, causing extensive blood transport metastasis. The early metastasis of renal cancer cannot be ignored. It is not incurable after renal cancer metastasis. As long as active treatment achieves good results, it is still worthy of patients' attention.