General Information

 Two bean shaped organs four and a half inches long situated against the posterior    abdominal wall, one on each side of the vertebral column Cancer of the


 The kidneys produce and eliminate urine through a complex filtration network and    reabsorption system comprising more than two million nephrons


 The kidneys remove water or urine and return water that has been filtered to the blood    plasma, thus maintaining the water balance of the body


 Having only one kidney does not create a medical problem

 Hormones produced by the pituitary gland control the function of the kidneys in    regulating water content


 Constitutes approximately 4% of all cancers

 Affects three times as many males as females

 Of tumors arise in the parenchyma and are commonly called renal cell cancers


 Affect men in age group 40 to 75

 Year survival rate for patients with early stage cancer up to seventy-five percen