Stage 4 Pediatric Kidney Cancer. Childhood kidney tumors are diseases in which malignant cancer cells form in the tissues of the kidney. A uk based study found that early diagnosis improves survival rates by 70 to 94 because the tumor is diagnosed at a stage when it is only localised.
Stage 4 is the most serious form of kidney cancer with such a designation meaning the cancer has spread from the kidney to other areas of the body. It may or may not have spread to nearby lymph nodes but it. The stage 4 kidney cancer can cause a lump in your abdomen.
There are two kidneys one on each side of the backbone above the waist tiny tubules in the kidneys filter and clean the blood they take out waste products and make urine the urine passes from each kidney through a long tube called a ureter into the bladder.
Stage 4 kidney cancer also can be classified in two ways. Stage 4 is the most serious form of kidney cancer with such a designation meaning the cancer has spread from the kidney to other areas of the body. Common treatment options for stage 4 kidney cancer are immunotherapy chemotherapy and targeted therapy or cytokine therapy interleukin 2 or interferon. In some cases where the cancer has not spread too much laparoscopic renal surgery or renal nephrectomy may be recommended.