Renal cell carcinoma (redirected from Grawitz tumor)

Renal cell carcinoma

Cancer of the kidney.

Mentioned in: Nephrectomy

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renal cell carcinoma Adenocarcinoma of renal cells, hypernephroma, kidney cancer, renal cancer, renal cell cancer, renal adenocarcinoma Oncology A renal tubule CA Epidemiology 30,600 new, 12,000 deaths/yr–US, 1996 Risk factors 1.6 ♂, 1.9 ♀, obesity in ♀–5.9 odds ratio in highest 5% of upper body mass, phenacetin analgesics, ↑ meat consumption, tea drinking–♀, petroleum exposure Types Clear cell–75%-80%, papillary–types 1, 2–10%-15%, chromophobe–5%, oncocytoma–5% Diagnosis Hx, exam, imaging, Bx Management Surgery, RT, chemotherapy are ineffective; IL-2 and IFN alpha yield a 20% response, 20% 1 yr event-free survival