Most patients with renal cell carcinoma have no symptoms. Typically these tumors are found incidentally when a procedure or radiological study is done for other reasons.
When renal cell carcinoma becomes large, patients may experience signs and symptoms including hematuria (blood in the urine), low back pain, a mass in the abdomen, fatigue, weight loss, fever not obviously associated with infection and swelling of the legs. Often these symptoms are associated with other causes that are not due to cancer but they still deserve evaluation.
Most patients with renal cell carcinoma have no symptoms. Typically
these tumors are found incidentally when a procedure or
radiological study is done for other reasons. When renal cell
carcinoma becomes large, patients may experience signs and...
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Johns Hopkins Medicine answered:Most patients with renal cell carcinoma have no symptoms. Typically these tumors are found incidentally when a procedure or radiological study is done for other reasons.
