Renal Cell Carcinoma Success Stories

Keytruda is a prescription medicine used to treat a kind of kidney cancer called renal cell carcinoma rcc.

Renal cell carcinoma success stories. When the urologist did an mri he found that instead of a cyst it was a tumor on the kidney and he suggested i have my kidney removed. But my family and i weren t going to give up. Seeking metastatic kidney cancer treatment. The main types of kidney cancer are renal cell cancer forms on the outside or cortex of the kidney and urothelial cancer cancer forms in kidney lining.

Jamie swift is not your typical kidney cancer survivor. Swift had none of these risk factors. This information was last reviewed in january 2019. I was 42 years old at the time a dentist with a successful small private practice enjoying life and taking it easy.

It s also more common in men than women. I had kidney cancer specifically stage iv renal cell carcinoma. However after being diagnosed with kidney cancer amid the covid 19 pandemic those activities had to take a back seat. I was diagnosed with stage 4 renal cell cancer on the eve of thanksgiving 2008.

He recommended i start arranging for hospice care. The average age at diagnosis is 64. It may be used with the medicine axitinib as your first treatment when your kidney cancer has spread or cannot be removed by surgery advanced rcc. At that point my diagnosis was clear.

Sarah was diagnosed with a rare type of kidney cancer papillary renal cell carcinoma in 2009 at the age of 32 she very quickly joined the kidney cancer support network website forum to connect with other patients and find out as much as possible about kidney cancer later on and recognising the power of facebook. The first urologist i saw gave me only a 10 15 chance for survival even with treatment. Kidney renal cancer stories symptoms diagnosis treatment. The pathology tests on the tumour confirmed that it was renal cell carcinoma but it was a type with a good prognosis.

Kidney cancer can develop in adults and children.