Is Kidney Cancer More Prevalent In Certain Populations?
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Does kidney cancer show more prevalence in specific populations? Watch as Dr. Pavlos Msaouel explains the prevalence of kidney cancer, how detection has changed, and populations that have shown higher kidney cancer incidence.
Transcript
Interviewer:
Based on your research and what you're seeing out there in this world of kidney cancer diagnosis, are you seeing any incidences of kidney cancers increasing amongst particular populations?
Dr. Pavlos Msaouel:
Yes, it certainly appears to be increasing, first of all, kidney cancer appears to be increasing overall in the overall population, and that they have to do with the fact that we're getting better at detecting...and so, because we're getting better at detecting it, we're diagnosing it more. And the good thing about that is that we're better at detecting it at an earlier stage when it's small, let's say less than four centimeters in which case, one can do a surgery to cure this kidney cancer, and that is why even though it does seem that kidney cancer is certainly increasing at the same time, the survival from kidney cancer has increased in the last 60 years, it used to be about 34 percent in the 1950s, and now it's increased to about 75 percent in 2015 and later. Now, it does also seem particularly that the frequency of kidney cancer seems to be increasing more in Black Americans, African Americans, and it doesn't seem that the outcomes are different if you're Black or white, so that's good news. And it may be that kidney cancer is now being diagnosed more of an earlier stage amongst Blacks. Now there are also other populations were given a cancer is increased, for example of obese populations, because the association that we mentioned before with obesity, and then there are other aspects that we still don't understand.
For example, it does appear that here in Texas, we may have a higher frequency of kidney cancer compared with other states, and we're still working on understanding why that is.
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