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Risk Factors
A risk factor is something that increases your chance of getting a disease or condition.
Risk factors for kidney cancer include:
- Smoking
- Family history of certain hereditary forms of kidney cancer
- Age: 50 or older
- Sex: male
- Certain occupational exposures (like asbestos and aniline) and tanning products
- Exposure to some toxins, such as astrolachia (an herb common in some Chinese herbal preparations)
- Balkan nephritis
- Chronic renal stones
- Phenacetin abuse
- Tuberous sclerosis—a hereditary condition that causes tumors to grow in many different organs, including angiomyolipomas of the kidney, a benign tumor
- Dialysis treatment
- Von Hippel Lindau syndrome —a syndrome associated with many types of cancer
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