Wilm's tumour - Sanjay Manohar's Medical Browser
Synonyms
Causes
Effects
Parents
Treatments
Description
- "Incidence 0.01%
90% diagnosed prior to age 6.
95 % unilateral
5% synchronous bilateral
Derives from nephrogenic blastema cells:
(pluripotent embyronic renal precursor cells)
PROGNOSIS
- With treatment 80% survive long-term.
- Increased risk of second tumours in survivors:
-bone and soft-tissue sarcomas
- -breast cancer
- -lymphoma
- -gastrointestinal tumours
-melanoma
"