Kidney and Urinary System Terms

Surgery to remove one kidney.

SLE is the abbreviation for systemic lupus erythematosus, an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body's own tissues.

Sorafenib works through two separate mechanisms, directly slowing cancer cell growth while also limiting the blood supply a tumor depends on.

A drug used to treat advanced kidney cancer and a type of liver cancer that cannot be removed by surgery.

Cancer has spread to the layer of tissue under the inner lining of the bladder.

The tumor is 7 centimeters or smaller and is found in the kidney only.

The tumor was completely removed by surgery and all of the following are true: (1) cancer was found only in the kidney and did not spread to blood vessels of the kidney; (2) the outer layer of the…

Talactoferrin is a laboratory made version of human lactoferrin studied as an investigational treatment, without established approved use.

A drug being studied in the treatment of kidney cancer that has spread.

Relief arrives in days rather than months, because the drug changes muscle tone instead of shrinking the gland causing the obstruction.

It does not shrink the prostate at all; it slackens the muscle wrapped around the outlet, so any relief arrives within days.

A drug used to treat advanced renal cell carcinoma (a type of kidney cancer).

An alpha blocker that relaxes the muscle collar around the bladder outlet, easing urine flow within days rather than months.

A drug used to treat urinary problems caused by an enlarged prostate.

A laboratory-made copy of a milk protein, promoted against kidney and lung cancer until the late trials came back negative.

A drug used to treat advanced renal cell carcinoma (a type of kidney cancer).

A rare, genetic disorder that is present at birth and has two or more of the following symptoms: Wilms tumor (a type of kidney cancer); little or no iris (the colored part of the eye); defects in…

Wilms tumor is the most common kidney cancer in children, usually diagnosed before school age and often highly treatable.

A registered nurse who has additional education and training in how to care for people who have a wound, an ostomy (surgery to create an opening in the abdomen for a new path for urine or stool), or…