Well my name is Cindy and I recently had a hospital stay from a fall I had and in the process of them testing to make sure I had no fractures or broken bones in back the did c t scans from head to waist and discovered a mass on the bottom of my right kidney . So in the process a cancer doctor came and gave me his card and I had to see him when I got out of hospital so then he set me up with a urologist here where that Dr discussed the c t scan and him and the cancer doctor are 90,,%sure it is renal cell carcinoma. My question is this my urologist suggested I get a partial kidney removed but my family and I come to same agreement if removing the whole kidney so I would only have to go through it one time. Now do I as a patient have the right to have the whole kidney removed if that is what I want and can the doctor sign an agreement to what type of surgery I want so that he can't go back in it and do a partial when I want the whole thing out.?
