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Kidney cancer, 14 thousand new cases every year in Italy

2021-06-19T14:29:00.551Z


It affects almost 14,000 Italians every year and the diagnosis is often late because it is an illness that remains silent in over half of the cases for most of its course: it is kidney cancer, from which early diagnosis is essential (ANSA )


It affects almost 14,000 Italians every year and the diagnosis is often late because it is an illness that remains silent in over half of the cases for most of its course: it is kidney cancer, from which early diagnosis is essential;

therefore watch out for the most common sentinel symptoms: urination disorders, presence of blood in the urine, localized pain in the lumbar area.

These are the data released by the Italian Society of Urology (SIU) on the occasion of June 17, World Kidney Cancer Day organized by the International Kidney Cancer Coalition (ikcc.org). And from June 17, throughout July, information materials and the possibility of direct contact with SIU urologists will be available on the website www.siu.it through the #SiuRisponde initiative.

"It is a neoplasm that often remains silent for most of its course, is identified occasionally in over half of the cases and in 25-30% of the time it manifests itself already in an advanced phase - explains Walter Artibani, secretary general of the SIU - Yet more than 50% of patients recover if diagnosed at an early stage. Hence the crucial role of the urologist, who in the vast majority of cases is the first specialist who meets the patient, in periodic check-ups in case of urination disturbances or kidney pain caused by stones ". To date, in fact, most kidney tumors are identified above all thanks to an abdominal ultrasound prescribed for other reasons, very often by the urologist,for example due to the possible presence of stones on the edge of a renal colic.

"We are talking about men and women - he continues: the urologist is not only the doctor of males even if the numbers of kidney cancer classify it as having a male majority (9000 cases among males against half in women)". "In cases where the neoplastic disease is limited only to the kidney, it is up to the urologist to recommend diagnostic tests by images and then choose the treatment - observes Rocco Damiano, Professor of Urology and Director of the School of Specialization and UOC Urology of the Magna Graecia University di Catanzaro -. When the neoplasm is advanced and involves other nearby or distant organs (metastases), the oncologist takes over, but always in the context of a multidisciplinary assessment to guarantee the quality and efficiency of the diagnostic-therapeutic and care path "- concludes . (HANDLE).

Source: ansa

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