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[Hassin Bin Sober]

89. This makes sense based on what I've been reading about childhood kidney cancer.

Complete resection of the kidney is less risky, even factoring in the risk -1%- complete renal failure later in life, than doing biopsies and partial resections.

Not sure what type of cancer this kid has but something called a Wilms tumor sounds likely.

The staging goes from 1 to 3 with the mere presence of a biopsy (or other tumor spillage)

With Stage 3 and operative spillage comes a lot of risk for much worse prognosis later.

It appears diagnosis is best done through imaging and later pathology of the kidney AFTER it is removed to asses future treatments if needed.

Like you, my partner found a tumor incedental to other treatment. My partner was preparing for hernia surgery when they found a small mass on his pancreas. The diagnosis was Pancreatic Nueroendocrine Tumor(PNET) -- a much more survivable cancer than adenocarcinoma AKA pancreatic cancer.

PNETs are relatively rare - 2500 cases versus 95,000 cases of the bad pancreatic cancer. They see a lot of these tumors in autopsies of people who died from other causes.

The gamble is do you leave a PNET alone and watch it? Or do you cut it out? PNETS do not respond well to chemo or radiation. So if it spreads you have big problems.

Steve Jobs, contrary to popular belief, died due to a PNET and not the more deadly pancreatic adenocarcinoma. That's why doctors were quoted as saying Jobs would be alive today if he listened to his surgeon. He likely killed himself with woo.