Radiation Therapy For Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma

Radiation therapy uses high energy rays or particles to kill cancer cells.

Radiation therapy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

Adenocarcinoma of the kidney is an unusual tumor both in its biological behavior and in its response to radiation treatment. New advances in rt techniques including stereotactic irradiation have made encouraging contributions in the oncologic scenario opening up new opportunities in rcc management. Onufrey v mohiuddin m. Historically these tumors have been.

When symptoms and signs appear they include constant back pain fatigue anemia weight loss intermittent fevers a lump on the lower back side and blood in the urine. If the tumor and metastasis can be isolated surgical removal of the cancerous tissue and or treatment of the metastatic tumor by removal or other procedures such as stereotactic body radiation. Renal cell carcinoma rcc is a type of kidney cancer. Whereas stereotactic body radiation therapy sbrt involves radiation dose intensification via escalation we hypothesize sbrt might result in similar high local control rates as previously published on metastases of varying histologies.

Melanoma and renal cell carcinoma rcc are traditionally considered less radioresponsive than other histologies. Stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic body radiation therapy sbrt have led to a resurgence of the use of radiotherapy in the management of advanced renal cell carcinoma rcc. Metastatic renal cell carcinoma is cancer in your kidneys that has spread to other parts of your body. These techniques provide excellent local control and palliation of metastatic sites of disease with minimal toxicity.

External radiation therapy is used to treat renal cell cancer and may also be used as palliative therapy to relieve symptoms and improve quality of life. Traditionally renal cell carcinoma rcc has been considered a radioresistant tumor and therefore radiation therapy rt was mainly confined in treatment of metastasis. Radiation is sometimes used to treat kidney cancer if a person is not healthy enough to have surgery or has only one kidney. It s also called stage iv renal cell cancer.

Often rcc has no initial symptoms. Read about survival rates treatment and stages. Sometimes other treatments will be tried first instead.