What are the problems with kidney cancer surgery

Surgery is the main method of treating kidney cancer and is also a factor that affects the overall treatment effect of kidney cancer. Controlling the quality of kidney cancer surgery is the key to treating kidney cancer. However, surgery, as a local treatment method, often faces many problems, and kidney cancer patients need to strengthen their awareness.

1. Insufficient resection margin and inadequate lymph node clearance

The quality of surgery is directly related to local recurrence and distant metastasis. If local recurrence occurs after renal cancer surgery, unless it is palliative surgery for renal cancer, it is likely that the surgical resection margin is insufficient or the lymph nodes are not fully cleared, and the tumor cannot be completely removed.

2. Comorbidities increase the difficulty of surgery

Kidney cancer is more common in the elderly, who often have multiple comorbidities such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, and diabetes, which make surgical treatment difficult.

3. Kidney cancer surgery is dangerous

Most renal cancer surgeries are open-chest surgeries. Large-scale resection and cleaning will inevitably increase the risk of complications, causing postoperative complications such as bleeding and side effects.

4. Late-stage surgery may be counterproductive

Kidney cancer surgery is a local treatment method, but kidney cancer is a systemic disease. Generally, when it develops to the middle and late stages, surgery alone will not only fail to achieve the desired therapeutic effect, but in some cases may even have the opposite effect.