June 18 marks World Kidney Cancer Day and on the eve of that date, the Vicare Patient Association (Living with Kidney Cancer) reported this Wednesday that almost 5,000 new diagnoses of this disease are made in our country, 13 cases per day, which places it in the fifth most frequent tumor, behind breast, colon, prostate and lung.
According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), in 2018 it estimated 4,889 cases of kidney cancer in our country, of which 90% correspond to the so-called “renal cell carcinoma” (RCC), and from these data, information would leak.
As detailed by Vicare, the detection of this disease is carried out incidentally when carrying out studies for other reasons, since “it is a disease that generally does not give symptoms until it is in advanced stages.”
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“Kidney cancer is a tumor that does not present symptoms in its early stages, which is why between 20% and 30% of cases are diagnosed when the disease is in advanced stages,” warned Martín Richardet, specialist doctor in oncology, director of the Research area of the Oncology Institute of Córdoba (IONC) and member of the Argentine Association of Clinical Oncology (AAOC).
This disease originates from the uncontrolled proliferation of the cells that make up that organ, and, although it usually does not present symptoms in its initial stages, it can present itself in more advanced stages, such as blood in the urine, pain on one side back pain, tiredness, loss of appetite, fever, or anemia.
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That is why specialists highlighted the importance of preventing this disease by combating those modifiable risk factors, such as smoking, obesity and high blood pressure, and others that cannot be modifiable, such as being male, being over 60 years old, having a family history of kidney cancer, being of African descent, and undergoing dialysis treatment.
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