Kidney Cancer Lung Metastasis. Kidney cancer most often spreads to the lungs and bones but it can also go to the brain liver ovaries and testicles. Stage 4 kidney cancer spread to lungs another name for metastases is advanced cancer metastatic cancer or cancer of stage 4.
Learn about metastatic lung cancer symptoms causes and treatment. Metastasis develops when cancer cells are moving away from the main tumor and enter the blood or lymphatic system. Kidney cancer ranks 8th in ukraine in the structure of cancer morbidity in men and 12th in women.
Because it has no symptoms early on it can spread before you even know you.
The most common site of kidney cancer spread is lung metastasis says dr. The situation is aggravated by the fact that at the time of primary treatment 32 34 of patients have distant metastases ml and in 30 40 of radically operated patients they occur in the long term. Kidney cancer most often spreads to the lungs and bones but it can also go to the brain liver ovaries and testicles. When a patient has a metastasis and no site of origin can be found a metastasis of unknown origin the most likely site is the lung or kidney.