Uro Oncology Hospital in India

Kidney Cancer

Treatment Options

Causes: Smoking or chewing tobacco, longstanding uncontrolled blood pressure, obesity and familial syndromes
Symptoms: Blood in the urine, loin pain, loin mass and unexplained weight loss
Treatment: Robotic Partial Nephrectomy: Removal of small to moderately large tumors without harming the healthy part of the kidney. Intra-operative ultrasound is helpful in detecting the tumor-kidney parenchyma transition. It ensures clear surgical margins and at the same time reduces damage of rest of the kidney. Surgical robot has added advantage of freedom of instruments movement and 3-D vision which allows Urologist to perform surgery with high precision and reduces blood loss and collateral damage.

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Bladder Cancer

Treatment Options

Causes and Risk factors: Smoking causes about half of all bladder cancers.Certain industrial chemicals, eg:aromatic amines used in dye, rubber, leather and textiles.Lynch syndrome is a familial syndrome linked mainly to bladder,colon and endometrial cancer.

Symptoms:Blood in the urine without much pain (called painless hematuria) is usually the first sign. Sometimes bladder cancer can cause irritative urinary symptoms. In advanced stage patient looses weight & appetite and can have bony pains.

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Prostate Cancer

Treatment Options

Risk factors: Prostate cancer is primarily a disease of the elderly. Men with a family history have 2 to 3-fold increased risk
Symptoms: Difficulty in passing urine, Urinary frequency and blood in the urine. In early stages patients might not have any symptoms at all. Bony pains, loss of weight and appetite- in advanced stage

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Penile Cancer

Treatment Options

Penectomy : Surgical removal of entire cancerous penis is called Total penectomy. However partial penectomy is more commonly done procedure, in which only a part of penis is removed enabling the patient to urinate in standing position. We also frequently perform various penile sparing procedures such as glansectomy (removal of glans penis only) and excision of cancerous lesion alone in case of very small tumors.

Groin node dissections (Complete ilioinguinal or modified inguinal node dissection) : Penile cancer usually spreads to groin nodes followed by pelvic lymph nodes. These nodes are surgically removed depending on the extent of nodal involvement.

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Testicular Cancer

Treatment Options

Risk Factors:
Age: It is most common cancer affecting young adults.
Undescended testis: Development of testis occurs inside the adomen of fetus, later descend into the scrotum by birth. If the descent is hampered, then it is called Undescended testis, which increases the risk of testicular cancer.
Personal history: Having testicular cancer in one testicle increases the likelihood of developing a cancer in the other testicle.

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