Kidney cancer overview

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## Overview

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Renal cell carcinoma is the most common form of kidney cancer arising from the renal tubule. It is the most common type of kidney cancer in adults. Initial treatment is surgery. It is notoriously resistant to radiation therapy and chemotherapy, although some cases respond to immunotherapy. The advent of targeted cancer therapies such as sunitinib has vastly improved the outlook for treatment of RCC.

## Classification

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Recent genetic studies have altered the approaches used in classifying renal cell carcinoma. The following system can be used to classify these tumors:[1][2][3]

* Clear cell carcinoma (VHL and others on chromosome 3)
* Papillary carcinoma (MET, PRCC)
* Chromophobe renal carcinoma
* Collecting duct carcinoma

Other associated genes include TRC8, OGG1, HNF1A, HNF1B, TFE3, RCCP3, and RCC17.

## References

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1. ↑ Reuter VE, Presti JC (2000). "Contemporary approach to the classification of renal epithelial tumors". Semin. Oncol. 27 (2): 124–37. PMID 10768592. Unknown parameter `|month=` ignored (help)
2. ↑ Bodmer D, van den Hurk W, van Groningen JJ; et al. (2002). "Understanding familial and non-familial renal cell cancer". Hum. Mol. Genet. 11 (20): 2489–98. PMID 12351585. Unknown parameter `|month=` ignored (help)CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
3. ↑ Cotran, Ramzi S.; Kumar, Vinay; Fausto, Nelson; Nelso Fausto; Robbins, Stanley L.; Abbas, Abul K. (2005). Robbins and Cotran pathologic basis of disease. St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier Saunders. p. 1016\. ISBN 0-7216-0187-1.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)