Yes, words are often used so loosely.. "In remission" should only apply to very serious, mainly widespread, cancers which have responded well to treatment, but are regarded as still a major threat. I don't think "cure" a...
http://www.mombu.com/medicine/general-body/t-should-we-...
There are treatments for patients with Wilms' tumor. Three kinds of treatment are used: ・ Surgery (taking out the cancer in an operation) ・ Chemotherapy (using drugs to kill cancer cells ・ Radiation therapy (using high- dose x-rays or ...
http://www.queenscancercenter.com/specificcancers/kidne...
Hi Socks, I'm sorry your friend's lost a kidney. There are apparently benign tumors http://www.oncologychannel.com/kidne...r/benign.shtml but like you wonder about the bone scan.. If I'm understanding correctly, the bone scan was negative. ...
http://www.mombu.com/medicine/general-body/t-kidney-tum...
benign kidney tumors The tumor is confined to the kidney, but does not involve the capsule of tissue that surrounds the kidney. The tumor extends through the capsule of the kidney. The tumor shows evidence of lymph node involvement, or exte...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Can_benign_kidney_tumors_turn...
Surgical exploration of the contralateral kidney in patients with Wilms tumor is standard practice. The introduction of modern imaging techniques (ultrasound, computerized tomography and magnetic resonance imaging) in place of excretory uro...
http://www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/8683762
Evans CP , Tunuguntla HS , Saffarian AR , Wood CG .
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12544297
Cats get tumours the same way that we do and the answer is that nobody really knows what causes them. It is so unlikely that smoking around your cat is the cause of a kidney tumour, so don't feel guilty. She is 7 which is around the age tha...
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080902...