How Is Kidney Cancer Diagnosed?
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What kidney cancer symptoms and testing help confirm diagnosis? Watch as Dr. Pavlos Msaouel explains symptoms that can develop and imaging and other tests that providers examine in diagnosis.
Transcript
Interviewer:
How is kidney cancer diagnosed?
Dr. Pavlos Msaouel:
Kidney cancer is often diagnosed when you develop symptoms, and some of these symptoms, the most common ones can be blood in the urine, the medical term is hematuria. So, blood is not supposed to occur in your urine, if you have blood in your urine, you need to take it seriously, and go to your doctor and determine what could be the case very often, it may not be cancer, but sometimes it can, including kidney cancer another symptom can be pain in the flanks, let's say, if you have or you're getting a cancer on your right kidney, you may have pain on your right flank, and sometimes you might even palpate a mass, and so that's how we often diagnose the cancer through such symptoms, and after what what we do to confirm is we can do imaging, like ultrasound of the kidney will use sound waves to visualize to see the kidney cancer, or we may use X-rays by a safety scan or magnetic waves by doing an MRI of the belly to look at the kidneys.
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