Chronic Kidney Disease and Renal Cancer: Understanding the Link

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and Renal Cell Cancer (RCC) might seem like separate health issues, but new research shows they are more closely linked than previously thought. The association between renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) is intricate and reciprocal: On the one hand CKD to progress to RCC is due to Oxidative stress or an underlying cystic illness while RCC may result in CKD by:

• The tumour itself
• surgery to reduce the size of the kidneys, such as a radical or partial nephrectomy
• renal damage that occurs suddenly during or after surgery
• using medicines like vascular endothelial cel vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitors and immune checkpoint inhibitors