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Kidney Cancer

Healthy kidneys filter your blood. After your blood is filtered, your renal tubules put nutrients and other helpful substances back into your blood.

Kidney cancer is when cancer cells are in the lining of your tubules. Cancer cells can group together and form a tumor. Cancer may spread to other parts of your body. When it spreads, it is metastatic kidney cancer.

Many kidney cancers are found at an early stage. This is when they are easier to treat and often curable.

The most common type of kidney cancer is renal cell cancer. About 9 out of 10 kidney cancers are this type. It is also called renal cell adenocarcinoma.

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