Three months ago, Mr. Wang, 35 years old, who lives in Wenzhou, began to experience frequent hematuria. Although he had no other discomfort, he decided to seek medical opinion at Guangzhou Royallee Cancer Center in early August, considering the responsibility of taking care of his wife, children and parents as his twin children were still young.
After contrast-enhanced CT scan, ultrasound and other related examinations in our hospital, Mr. Wang was detected to be kidney cancer of stage T3. After a joint consultation with multidisciplinary experts including Professor Dong Pei from Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Professor Liu Haiying and Professor Wang Jiannan from Royallee Cancer Center, and full communication with Mr. Wang and his family, a practical and effective treatment plan was finally developed—— right radical nephrectomy under laparoscope, featured with minimal invasion, short time, less bleeding and quick recovery, is a treatment method that can achieve the best curative effect for patients.
On the morning of August 23, under the cooperation of Professor Dong Pei from Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center and Dr. Li Chen from Guangzhou Royallee Cancer Center, right radical nephrectomy under laparoscope was successfully performed. The operation was considered difficult, due to the complicated condition of Mr. Wang's renal hilum vessels, which could easily cause vascular damage and the risk of massive bleeding. Despite this, our expert team was calm, careful and patient, and separated the fat and vascular sheath wrapped around each renal vein layer by layer. The operation took a total of 2 hours, and finally the right kidney was successfully removed.
△Professor Dong Pei and Dr. Li Chen are performing surgery on the patient
The day after the operation, Mr. Wang's condition was stable, and he was able to take a small amount of liquid food and bedside activities. He is recovering quickly and smoothly, and the family is very satisfied with the results of the operation.
It is understood that Mr. Wang does not smoke or drink at ordinary times, so why does he develop kidney cancer? Experts explain that: kidney cancer is a common type of malignancy in China’s adults, with vulnerable population of middle-aged and elderly smoking men aged 40 to 60, hypertensive diabetic patients, and obese people and so on. However, with the changes in modern people's living habits, diet, and environment, many young people also begin to develop kidney cancer.
At present, for early renal cancer, it can achieve good curative effect through radical kidney resection (commonly known as total nephrectomy) and other surgical methods, and the postoperative five-year survival rate of early renal cancer is greater than 80%. Therefore, early detection, early diagnosis, and early treatment are the keys to defeating kidney cancer.
To prevent kidney cancer, you need to do the following checkups in time!
Laboratory tests:blood test and urine test. Urine test mainly refers to routine urinalysis, and if the results suggest hematuria, further imaging studies of the urinary system are required to identify the cause of bleeding.
Blood tests:complete blood count, hemoglobin, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, liver and kidney function, lactate dehydrogenase, etc.
Imaging tests:Ultrasound, CT scan, MRI, etc., which can detect kidney masses of tiny size.
