Hello,
Newly diagnosed with a difficult decision to make.
Lesion on left kidney stable for four years has “dramatically started to grow”and is in a difficult position next to lung and blood vessels according to consultant so they cannot do a biopsy. I have been given a decision to make “according to my taste for risk”.
1. A partial nephrectomy-the most risky.
2.Remove the whole kidney a simpler operation but then I would only have one.
3.Continue to monitor untill it reaches a stage where the kidney must be removed,it is close to that size now. But if I wait my health and my age may be against me by then.
I am immunosupressed due to taking Tocilizumab for Rheumatoid Arthritis and Temporal Arteritis.
I would appreciate any feed back before I make the decision.