Why you don’t need to take medication for early stage kidney cancer surgery

The main treatment for early stage kidney cancer is surgical treatment, and there is no research to prove that taking medication is very effective for early stage kidney cancer patients. It is also possible that early surgery is likely to cure kidney cancer. Therefore, patients with early stage kidney cancer usually do not need to take medicine after surgery. Early stage kidney cancer is mainly treated by surgery, which includes radical nephrectomy and surgery with preserved renal unit, either open surgery or laparoscopic surgery. Besides the above two surgical treatments, radiofrequency ablation, cryoablation, high-energy focused ultrasound, renal artery embolization and other treatment modalities are also available. Early stage renal cancer is not sensitive to both radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and early stage renal cancer patients usually do not use chemotherapy drugs after surgery. The reason why early kidney cancer patients do not need to use conventional drugs after surgery is not only that kidney cancer is not sensitive to radiotherapy and chemotherapy, but also that early surgery is likely to cure kidney cancer, so there is no need to apply expensive targeted drugs without evidence of recurrence and with big side effects. Early stage kidney cancer patients can be free of medication after surgery, but they should go to the hospital for regular follow up, and the interval of follow up should be according to the doctor’s instruction, and they should go to the hospital for consultation when they have any discomfort after surgery.