Hi there I've been looking to see if I can find some information. I don't even know what I'm looking for to be honest. A loved one has told me that he is to have a kidney removed. There are a few reasons for this. There is a mass but he has been having an issue with his blood for months and due to that they can't investigate the mass, however his kidney isn't functioning properly so they have decided to just remove it. They can't do this until his bloods are stable enough though. Has anyone experienced this before? Sorry if that's a bit of a ramble.
Hi there. We all get bloods taken regularly to check that our body can cope with the treatment being offered whether it's drugs, radiotherapy or surgery. But there are many blood tests and each has a "normal" range and thresholds for treatment/surgery. For example, seeing as we're on the kidney group, eGFR is the test for kidney function. Normal is >60 and if it falls beneath 40 it's unlikely that treatment will be approved. That's what happened to me. When this happens they give a drug to help the body recover. And then the treatment can normally resume once the bloods are OK again.
