Recurrence Risk of Renal Cell Carcinoma Lingers Even Decades After Nephrectomy

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a common malignancy in elderly males. Metastatic spread of this cancer is not an uncommon occurrence, even after nephrectomy. Lung, bone, liver, and brain are the most frequently involved sites. Such a type of presentation mostly occurs within five years after nephrecto...

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Autores principales: Hamid, Muhammad Ammar B, Sehbai, Aasim, Tariq, Shahan, Ullah, Sana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8442569/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34540444
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17217
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author Hamid, Muhammad Ammar B
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description Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a common malignancy in elderly males. Metastatic spread of this cancer is not an uncommon occurrence, even after nephrectomy. Lung, bone, liver, and brain are the most frequently involved sites. Such a type of presentation mostly occurs within five years after nephrectomy however, cases have been reported later as well. Here, we report a case of metastatic renal cell carcinoma that presented in the form of a lung growth 28 years after nephrectomy. This highlights the importance to consider relapsed metastatic renal cancer in the differential, even decades after its surgical removal.
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spelling pubmed-84425692021-09-16 Recurrence Risk of Renal Cell Carcinoma Lingers Even Decades After Nephrectomy Hamid, Muhammad Ammar B Sehbai, Aasim Tariq, Shahan Ullah, Sana Cureus Internal Medicine Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a common malignancy in elderly males. Metastatic spread of this cancer is not an uncommon occurrence, even after nephrectomy. Lung, bone, liver, and brain are the most frequently involved sites. Such a type of presentation mostly occurs within five years after nephrectomy however, cases have been reported later as well. Here, we report a case of metastatic renal cell carcinoma that presented in the form of a lung growth 28 years after nephrectomy. This highlights the importance to consider relapsed metastatic renal cancer in the differential, even decades after its surgical removal. Cureus 2021-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8442569/ /pubmed/34540444 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17217 Text en Copyright © 2021, Hamid et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Hamid, Muhammad Ammar B
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Recurrence Risk of Renal Cell Carcinoma Lingers Even Decades After Nephrectomy
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title_fullStr Recurrence Risk of Renal Cell Carcinoma Lingers Even Decades After Nephrectomy
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title_short Recurrence Risk of Renal Cell Carcinoma Lingers Even Decades After Nephrectomy
title_sort recurrence risk of renal cell carcinoma lingers even decades after nephrectomy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8442569/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17217
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