How to treat kidney tumors

How to treat kidney tumors? Nowadays, people are more and more concerned about health issues, so once someone finds out that he has a kidney tumor, it is undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for him. Because the difficulty of treating tumors and the pain it brings to patients have long been known, many patients hope to have an effective and painless treatment to treat themselves. Before that, patients need to know more about how to treat kidney tumors.

Treatment principles: For patients with localized or locally progressive (early or mid-stage) renal cancer, surgery is the main treatment method, while for metastatic renal cancer (late stage), comprehensive treatment with internal medicine as the main method should be adopted.

Surgery is usually the first choice for kidney cancer treatment and is currently recognized as a means of curing kidney cancer. Nephron-sparing surgery (surgery to preserve the kidney) or radical nephrectomy can be used for patients with early-stage kidney cancer. These operations can be performed laparoscopically or by traditional open surgery. Radical nephrectomy is usually used for patients with intermediate and stage kidney cancer, and this type of surgery is usually performed by open surgery.

Energy ablation (radiofrequency ablation, cryoablation, high-intensity focused ultrasound) can be used for the elderly, frail or patients with small renal cancer (tumor diameter ≤ 4 cm) who have contraindications to surgery.

For patients with renal cancer who cannot tolerate surgical treatment, renal artery embolization can relieve the symptoms of hematuria through interventional treatment, which is a palliative treatment method.

Currently, there is no recommended adjuvant treatment option for patients with early and intermediate renal cancer after surgery to effectively prevent recurrence or metastasis.

Advanced renal cancer should be treated with a comprehensive approach with medical treatment as the main approach. Surgical resection of the affected kidney can help identify the type of renal cancer and reduce the tumor burden, and can improve the effectiveness of immunotherapy (such as interferon-α) or targeted therapy.

Kidney tumor patients with abdominal distension can take some digestive drugs under the guidance of doctors. They should pay attention to adjusting their diet structure and avoid eating foods that are difficult to digest and produce gas. At the same time, they should pay attention to oral hygiene, rinse their mouths with light salt water or mouthwash regularly, and avoid smoking, drinking, spicy, fried and other irritating foods.