Symptoms Of Kidney Cancer

As it is a cancer disease where tumors are formed due to out of control growth of cells, such tumors are damaging the surrounding tissues of body. Some tumors are found as non-cancerous or malignant. The linings of very small tubes in the kidney are affected that is known as renal cell carcinoma. In very rare cases, people experience hard, thick bump or mass like structure at the region of the lower back of body or such lumps are seen by the healthcare providers during the ultrasounds or CT scan.

Fatigue is faced in different frequencies by person suffering from renal cancer and it can occur in persistent form. Such symptom of fatigue along with pain, nausea, and depression are associated with kidney cancer. There are almost 70-100% of patient encounters disturbance in multiple aspects of daily functioning and quality of life, just because of fatigue staying for longer period of time. Lacks of energy, cognitive impairment, mood disturbance or muscle weakness are also connected with renal carcinoma disease.

There are many reasons behind the symptoms like loss of appetite due to conditions like depression to flu where a person is not feeling hungry and losing his interest in eating food or any consumables. If a person is sitting for food, he or she will experience full in very small amount of food. The cancerous cells are interfering with the metabolism of body where the body is utilizing food for energy. A weight loss or cachexia (one type of syndrome associated with weight loss, loss of appetite and muscle mass) is indicating towards condition like renal cancer.

Unexpected weight loss is also noted in patient suffering from renal cancer when person is not doing any type of dieting to control his weight. At such conditions, there is a loss of approx. 5% or more in weight of person within a time period of 6-12 months. Due to growth of tumor and its spread, other organs are also getting affected resulting into loss of interest in eating. If a person is experiencing such type of weight loss, it is recommended to consult doctor for further screening.

A change in body temperature that generally rises at 100.5°F or more is considered as fever. If such rise in body temperature stays for a long time and doesn't go, it may represent occurrence of infection. But when the body is facing fever with sudden rise and fall during the day and may be sometimes at its peak temperature in the same day, it indicates towards disease conditions like renal cancer, liver cancer or blood cancer.

In such type of cancer, cancerous cells or tumors are interfering with the functioning of kidney. Just like the blood cancer, red blood cells are also affected in kidney cancer because the signals for formation of new red blood cells are triggered by kidney too. The excessive growth of cancerous cells in kidney inhibits the formation of erythropoietin, one type of protein stimulating the bone marrow for production of red blood cells. Due to renal cancer, the production of erythropoietin is decreased leading to less count of red blood cells.