After radical surgery, most of the early stage kidney cancer patients can live up to normal life expectancy.
Early stage kidney cancer generally refers to stage I and stage II kidney cancer, i.e. the tumor is only confined to the kidney and does not invade the surrounding veins and tissues, and the cancer cells have not metastasized to the regional lymph nodes and distant metastases. Most of the early stage kidney cancer patients have a good prognosis if they seek medical treatment as early as possible for radical nephrectomy.
Meanwhile, since the human body has two kidneys, after single nephrectomy, the metabolism, detoxification and other functions of the patient’s body will not be affected, so the survival time of most of the patients after the treatment is no different from that of the normal people, and they can live up to the normal life expectancy.
However, as only a single kidney is left after the surgery, the burden of daily metabolism is larger, which is easy to increase the chance of chronic renal insufficiency and other conditions. Therefore, at present, according to the specific conditions of patients, we usually try our best to perform kidney unit preservation surgery to reduce the chance of postoperative complications.
The prognosis of early-stage renal cancer is better and the risk is lower, so it is recommended that patients should seek medical treatment as soon as possible after diagnosis, so as to avoid delaying the condition.