dr. sa mmadi, should he descare? not every cyst is the same kind of cyst. today when we catch them early, the cure rate is extremely high. there are simple cysts, the majority of them, it is a fluid filled sack of fluid. that s the classification that we use. that s a simple cyst. there s two, three and four. his father probably with bosniak 3 and 4. those are cancerous, have tissue in it and calcification. the best study is ultrasound. make sure you follow up with your urologist every year and make sure that if there is any cause of cancer, every intent should be made not to remove the entire kidney, but just part of it. we can do it laparoscopically and that can be done. would is bosnjak? a professor from nyu that
came up with a classification for these renal cysts. we have four different types of classification, bosnjak one and two, three and four are more aggressive. you want to remove them and make sure if it s one of those, then your meteorologistist will recommend removal. thanks for the nyu nod. but he says he has pain. so one thing that can happen with simple cysts, and again, we re talking a simple cyst here, it can actually obstruct. so somebody has to make sure that it isn t obstructing the flow through the tubals. now, assuming that that is not the case, you can just follow it. the more complex ones, those are the ones you worry about. talking about kidney cancer for a minute, which we haven t covered here before, what puts you at risk for that, eric? high blood pressure, obesity, the thingsz we were worried about at the beginning of the show. smoking. we re always worried about smoking. and the other thing is workplace