How does kidney cancer get

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Have done kidney cancer operation, I want to know whether this can transfer to other organs, if transferred, how long can you live. In order to prevent you from having the same disease, I'd like to introduce how kidney cancer is caused.

How does kidney cancer get

Reason 1: smoking, a large number of prospective observation found that smoking is a major cause of renal cancer. The relative risk factor (RR) of renal cancer in smokers was 2, and the risk of renal cancer increased in smokers who had smoked for more than 30 years and smoked non filter cigarettes.

The second reason: occupational exposure, reported exposure to metal shop workers, newspaper printing workers, coke workers, dry cleaning industry and petrochemical workers increased the risk of kidney cancer and death.

The third reason: radiation. According to statistics, among 124 cases of tumors caused by using a weak alpha particle radiation source, 26 cases were confined to the kidney, but there were no reports about radiation exposure and renal cancer of radiation workers and atomic bomb victims.

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In some families, renal cell carcinoma was found during chromosome examination. A third pair of chromosomes is defective in people with a high incidence of renal cancer. Most of the familial renal cell carcinomas are early onset, tend to be multifocal and bilateral. There is a rare genetic disease, hereditary macular hamartomatosis (VHP) in patients with renal cancer up to 28% to 45%. Therefore, the etiology of renal cell carcinoma is also related to genetic factors.