Kidney Cancer Young Adults. Young children are more likely to develop a kind of kidney cancer called wilms tumor. Certain risk factors such as exposure to cancer causing chemicals like those found in tobacco smoke probably play a role in causing these acquired mutations but so far it s not known what causes.
Renal medullary carcinoma rmc. Young children are more likely to develop a kind of kidney cancer called wilms tumor. Kidney tumors are named after where they grow in the kidney or what kind of cells the tumor cells look like.
This type affects children and young adults but can also affect older adults.
The kidneys are organs that clean the blood by removing waste products. Some of the rare kidney tumors that affect children teens and young adults are. If the cancer has reached the lymph nodes they may be surgically removed. This is the most common form of kidney cancer in adults and accounts for 85 of all kidney cancers.