Kidney Cancer Leg Pain. Case report and review of the literature. As cancer develops it eventually begins to spread throughout the body to other locations.
One very common area for the spread of cancer is within the bones with the most common symptom being frequent localized pain in the affected bone. Localized leg pain can also be a sign of advanced cancer that has metastasized to the bones. Pain felt in the side or flank pain is one of the most common early symptoms of kidney cancer.
For example imaging studies taken to evaluate a different health problem may show a kidney tumor.
For those with kidney cancer pain management is a very important part of treatment. A very unusual presentation of renal cell carcinoma. Patients often do not experience symptoms until the kidneys are severely damaged at which. Localized leg pain can also be a sign of advanced cancer that has metastasized to the bones.