What Could be Causing Kidney Cancer?

What Causes Kidney Cancer?

In order to deal properly with kidney cancer we need to understand and — if possible — remove the underlying causes and risk factors. We need to ask: "What else is going on inside the body that might allow kidney cancer to develop?"

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Accurate diagnosis of the factors behind kidney cancer consists of three steps:

Step 1: List the Possible Causative Factors

Identify all disease conditions, lifestyle choices and environmental risk factors that can lead to kidney cancer. For example, cigarette smoke damage.

Step 2: Build a Symptom Checklist

Identify all possible symptoms and risk factors of each possible cause, and check the ones that apply:

recently quitting smoking

smoking 2-5 cigarettes per day

recent heavy tobacco smoking

reduced sense of smell

much secondhand smoke exposure

... and so on

Step 3: Rule Out or Confirm each Possible Cause

A differential diagnosis of your symptoms and risk factors finds the likely cause of kidney cancer.

Arriving at a Correct Diagnosis

The Analyst™ is our online diagnosis tool that learns all about you through a straightforward process of multi-level questioning, providing diagnosis at the end.

If you indicate cancer, The Analyst™ will ask further questions including this one:

Have you suffered from Kidney Cancer?

Possible responses:

→ No / don't know
→ Yes but now resolved for over 5 years
→ Yes but now resolved for under 5 years
→ Current problem but containable
→ Current problem and aggressive/spreading

Based on your response to this question, which may indicate either history of kidney cancer or kidney cancer, The Analyst™ will consider possibilities such as Cigarette Smoke Damage. Close to 50% of all bladder and kidney cancer deaths in men are caused by smoking. Among women, 37% of bladder and 12% of kidney cancer deaths are directly attributable to smoking. The risk of developing these cancers is two to three times greater for both male and female smokers than that of the nonsmoking population. Cigarette smoke can interact with chemicals (especially aromatic amines) in the work place to produce bladder and kidney cancer. Workers exposed to organic chemicals in the dye, rubber, leather and paint industries that also smoke have a greater bladder cancer rate than would be predicted from either smoking or chemicals alone.

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