Answer:
Ablation is suitable for you especially in the following situations:
- If you don’t want to undergo full-scale surgery,
- Have been deemed unfit or ‘high-risk’ for surgery,
- You have a solitary kidney or poor renal function,
- You have bilateral tumours (tumours in both kidneys),
- You have a genetic predisposition towards multiple tumours.
In some cases, ablation can be an alternative to a ‘radical nephrectomy’ (the removal of the whole kidney.)
Dr Rowland Illing, Consultant Interventional Radiologist and Kidney Cancer Expert
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