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Nephrectomy is the surgical removal of a kidney. more at Wikipedia

Treatment Success Rate

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Condition Members Success
Renal Cell Carcinoma (K...
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92%
Overall, 92% (79 Members) find Nephrectomy helpful
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Nephrectomy Reviews

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I'm not sure will find out next week
Mass is gone, he said he got it all, but what if it is some place else. Awaiting PET scan and oncology referral. Still site pain but overall not the worst I have been through.
Left kidney removed when diagnoised in 2005
taking out the mass 9cm and right kidney, helped, but it had metastizied to my right lung already.
had a full nephrectomy on the right, then 9 years later, cancer returned in the left and had a parital nephrectomy. It's been 5 years and so far so good.
Cryoablation Worked, but experienced a lot more post-procedural pain than I expected...still having that pain a year later.
It worked and its been 8 years this past April.
I had an open radical nephrectomy because they were also removing my ovaries. My incision was down the middle of my abdomen, which made my recovery easier. I was in the hospital 5 days and was off of the pain meds completely after about 10 days. Went back to work part time (office/desk job) at 3 weeks, just returning to full time after 6 weeks.
So far so good.
he was depressed intially and after surgery
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Discussions

  1. Discussion: Nephrectomy
    I need some advice from this very wise group. What info do you know about having a nephrectomy. I am strongly considering having one in the next cou... [More]
  2. Discussion: Nephrectomy
    Your post was very uplifting to me because I will also be a having a nephrectomy soon (bilateral, before transplant). Thanks for checking in and I ho... [More]
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    don't know what happened to my first reply. Tami, I'm so glad you feel better and it sounds as if your nephrectomy was a big success. I had a bilate... [More]
  4. Discussion: Nephrectomy
    I had a bilateral nephrectomy post transplant because I continued to have infections in my native kidneys. it was not an easy surgery but I benefitted... [More]
  5. Discussion: Nephrectomy
    I'm having a left nephrectomy on September 10th. My doctors did a split renal scan (radio nucleotide test) and discovered that my left kidney was bare... [More]

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