I was wondering because I hear that it can mean anything…. a tumor, kidney stones or just plain gas but I’m not sure. How would a doctor know which it is? I have no bleeding in urine, no fever, no vomiting or naseaous and no loss of appetite. I’ve had history of kidney stones but no symptoms lately except for dark urine which I know what it indicates. Those white spots in ultrasound can mean anything right?
Oh and I had x-ray. No white spots in the x-ray or KUB either.

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My father (62) had already one tumor removed from his bladder and another one is still on his kidney. Suddenly, he started to talk about not accepting any other surgery or any other type of cancer treatment. Obviously, he thinks there is a chance it just disappears…

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Johns Hopkins University Kidney Stone Overlay Project: Tumor Registration of Augmented Reality Overlay of a 3D CT to Real Time Stereoscopic Video During Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy. Video demonstrating the usefulness of a 3D model built from the CT scan overlaid on live stereo image using augmented reality. Video made by Balazs Vagvolgyi and Carol Reiley. Advised by Dr. Li Ming Su (Johns Hopkins Medical Center) and Dr. Gregory Hager (Computational Interaction and Robotics Lab). -Carol (cirl.lcsr.jhu.edu creiley@jhu.edu) Please comment or ask questions below!

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Hi my mum was diagnosed with kidney cancer in Dec 2007 and had her right kidney removed Jan 08, it was a stage 3 tumor and though they said it was very advanced they did not remove the lymph-nodes as they thought they were ok.

In Nov 08 her ct scan was clear and in March 09 they scan showed a spot on her liver which was 1.5cm, she had a MRI and they referred her back to the oncologist who told us the cancer had spread.

At present she is awaiting to see the surgeon in L’pool regarding having the left half of her liver removed, which we have been told is major op.

My mum is not sure if she wants the op, for a few reasons 1 because she feels removing half the liver will not cure the cancer and as they feel its probably spread through the blood or lymph-nodes and she feels it will only be matter of time before it reappears. 2 because she has been told its a minimum of a 3 month recovery.

Is it true that the cancer is likely to reappear even if the current spot is removed?

And does anyone know about radiofrequeny treatment as she is very keen to try that as compared to major sugery it only takes about a wks recovery.

Which has the best results, and if she had surery how long would the cancer stay away? Are we talking it could stay away years amd years, as the oncologest said kidney cancer is an aggesive cancer.

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Hi my mum was diagnosed with kidney cancer in Dec 2007 and had her right kidney removed Jan 08, it was a stage 3 tumor and though they said it was very advanced they did not remove the lymph-nodes as they thought they were ok.

In Nov 08 her ct scan was clear and in March 09 they scan showed a spot on her liver which was 1.5cm, she had a MRI and they referred her back to the oncologist who told us the cancer had spread.

At present she is awaiting to see the surgeon in L’pool regarding having the left half of her liver removed, which we have been told is major op.

My mum is not sure if she wants the op, for a few reasons 1 because she feels removing half the liver will not cure the cancer and as they feel its probably spread through the blood or lymph-nodes and she feels it will only be matter of time before it reappears. 2 because she has been told its a minimum of a 3 month recovery.

Is it true that the cancer is likely to reappear even if the current spot is removed?

And does anyone know about radiofrequeny treatment as she is very keen to try that as compared to major sugery it only takes about a wks recovery.

Which has the best results, and if she had surery how long would the cancer stay away? Are we talking it could stay away years amd years, as the oncologest said kidney cancer is an aggesive cancer.

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