Kidney cancer

The kidneys are two fist sized organs located on either side of the body, just underneath the ribcage. Their main role is to filter out waste products and excess water from the blood, producing urine (wee).

Kidney cancer typically affects people in their 60s and 70s and may be found incidentally when investigating other conditions and are therefore often in the early stages and so easily managed.  Symptoms of kidney cancer include haematuria, pain or a mass (bulge) in the abdomen.

If you are diagnosed with a lump in the kidney we will need to investigate you with a number of tests and then be able to discuss with you the different treatment modalities available to you.

We will first need to check if the cancer is localised to the kidney or if it has spread anywhere else this is done using a CT scan and may also necessitate a bone scan if the tumour is very large.