The survival period of malignant renal tumor with one right kidney removed needs to be judged by combining the severity of the patient’s condition, kidney function and other factors.
If the malignant renal tumor has not yet metastasized to other parts of the body and only proliferates in the kidney, removing the right kidney usually will not affect the survival of the patient, and of course, the prognosis is good, only that the patient should do a good job in taking care of the tumor.
If the tumor has already metastasized, although removing the right kidney can alleviate the condition, but it can’t remove all the tumor cells, so the prognosis of this kind of patients is worse, and the 5-year survival rate is about 30%.
After removing the right kidney of malignant renal tumor, if the function of the left kidney is normal, the patient’s survival will not be affected by the disease and can be clinically cured.
If the patient’s left kidney function is low, after removing the right kidney, the burden of the left kidney will be increased, which will cause the occurrence of renal failure. If such a patient maintains his life through hemodialysis, the survival rate of 5 years is also relatively high, but his physical condition will be declining, and the survival rate of 5 years may be less than 1% if no treatment is given.
Malignant renal tumors before kidney removal must be clear whether the tumor has spread, and at the same time for the patient’s left kidney function to do a good job of evaluation, so as to prolong the patient’s survival is very helpful.