Radiation Therapy For Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma

External radiation therapy uses a machine outside the body to send radiation toward the area of the body with cancer.

Radiation therapy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

New advances in rt techniques including stereotactic irradiation have made encouraging contributions in the oncologic scenario opening up new opportunities in rcc management. It s also called stage iv renal cell cancer. Stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic body radiation therapy sbrt have led to a resurgence of the use of radiotherapy in the management of advanced renal cell carcinoma rcc. Radiation is sometimes used to treat kidney cancer if a person is not healthy enough to have surgery or has only one kidney.

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Historically these tumors have been. Traditionally renal cell carcinoma rcc has been considered a radioresistant tumor and therefore radiation therapy rt was mainly confined in treatment of metastasis. Sometimes other treatments will be tried first instead. Adenocarcinoma of the kidney is an unusual tumor both in its biological behavior and in its response to radiation treatment.

These techniques provide excellent local control and palliation of metastatic sites of disease with minimal toxicity. Metastatic renal cell carcinoma is cancer in your kidneys that has spread to other parts of your body. Often rcc has no initial symptoms. External radiation therapy is used to treat renal cell cancer and may also be used as palliative therapy to relieve symptoms and improve quality of life.

Renal cell carcinoma rcc is a type of kidney cancer. Radiation therapy in the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma. Radiation therapy uses high energy rays or particles to kill cancer cells.