Volgograd specialists have successfully applied a new method of surgery. Worldwide described only five such operations. In Russia, a patient diagnosed with kidney cancer were operated for more than seven hours.
Experts uronefrologicheskogo Volgograd regional center became the first in Russia who had surgery to remove a tumor thrombus in the inferior vena cava in a patient with a diagnosis kidney cancer . The World Health described about five such operations.
- The prototype of this technique has been used successfully for the first time by the Italian urologists in 2004. Ten years later, the use of such an operation at the clinic said the Chinese doctors. Now, a technique available in Russia, - stressed in the regional administration.
The surgery lasted more than seven hours. The operation was performed by experienced surgeons, urologists, anesthesiologists and intensivists. Now the patient feels well. According to doctors, the operation - is only the first step of a long process of treatment.
Kidney cancer 4 is about 3% of all cancers in men and 2% in women 9. The average patient age at diagnosis is 61 year. If the cancer is diagnosed in the first stage, in 90% of cases, patients fully recover. In the diagnosis of the fourth stage is difficult to achieve even one-year survival rate. In the world each year become ill renal cell carcinoma 250 thousand people are killed about 100 thousand. (READ MORE)
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