Kidney Cancer Stage 1a. The cancer has spread to other parts of the body beyond the kidney area. Doctors also use a cancer s stage when talking about survival statistics.
The stages of kidney cancer are. It may have spread less than halfway. Less often non surgical treatments such as radiofrequency ablation and stereotactic body radiation therapy are used to try to kill the tumour sometimes the best approach for localised kidney cancer.
The tumor has grown larger but still remains within the kidney.
It may have spread less than halfway into the underlying muscle. The stages of kidney cancer are. And within a stage an earlier letter or number means a lower stage. Heart attacks strokes and many other medical conditions that are fairly common among older patients are more likely to be fatal than a kidney tumor that is in this early stage.