That's why follow-up matters. If a tumor returns, options may include more surgery, ablation, or medicines such as immunotherapy.
Key points
- Finding it early gives more choices.
When should I come in about this?
If “Robotic Nephrectomy: what if the tumor comes back” is the reason you are looking us up, call 678-344-8900 or book online and we will see you at our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center at 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road, or at our Decatur Clinic at 2711 Irvin Way. A mass on a scan is usually a planned visit. Heavy bleeding or pain with a fever should go to an emergency department or 911. Our urologists will review the imaging, explain what further tests would change the plan, and talk through surgery or other options Advanced Urology already offers for a kidney mass. Bring the CT or MRI report, a photo ID, insurance information if you carry it, and a medicine list.
We would like to see you in Sandy Springs
Our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center at 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road, which has its own surgery center, and our Decatur Clinic at 2711 Irvin Way are both ready to welcome you. One number books either office: 678-344-8900.
Schedule your visit with Advanced Urology, with locations across metro Atlanta. Call 678-344-8900 Book online
Further reading
- Read the full answer to this question on advancedurology.com
- Kidney cancer: Advanced Urology overview
How our Sandy Springs urologists think through this question
When someone brings this exact question into our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center, 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road, it gets a full hearing. Our Sandy Springs urologists give that question the time it deserves. In Sandy Springs our urologists sit with the story you bring, the tests already in hand, and what would actually change the plan, and then we talk about a procedure if one belongs in the discussion. When treatment comes up in Sandy Springs, we stay with what Advanced Urology already offers: the established options we already offer for a kidney mass: close monitoring, needle ablation, and surgery, including robotic surgery that tries to save the kidney when that is possible; histotripsy for kidney tumors is still being studied and is not a standard option yet. If a popular option is one we do not offer, we will tell you so at the Sandy Springs visit. These notes are here to get you ready; the Sandy Springs visit is where we fit the plan to you.
What a visit at Sandy Springs is usually like
The first appointment at our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center, 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road leaves room for you to tell the story in your own words. In that first conversation we ask how long the problem has lasted, what you have already tried, and which medicines you currently take. An exam is often part of that first Sandy Springs visit, and we walk through any urine study or scan before it happens. If a later procedure needs a surgery center, we will tell you whether it is scheduled here at 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road or at another Advanced Urology surgery center, and how to prepare. At the desk at our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center, 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road, please have a government-issued identification, insurance information if you carry it, and the names of the medicines you take; old records help, and we can see you even if the file is still coming together.
When to call our team at Sandy Springs about this
Call 678-344-8900 when the question you just read is the one on your mind, or when a test result named here has just arrived. We will get you on the Sandy Springs schedule, or you can use online booking, and we will tell you the earliest opening we can offer. Heavy bleeding, clots that stop you from urinating, a fever with pain in the side or back, or being unable to pass urine at all should be handled in an emergency department or by calling 911, rather than waiting for a routine slot at our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center, 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road.
A video from Advanced Urology that relates to this topic
You can watch the official Advanced Urology video below at your own pace, then bring questions from it to our Sandy Springs clinic.
#021 - FDG PET / CT for Kidney, Bladder and Testicular Cancers. Watch on YouTube
Other reading from Sandy Springs
What the video covers
On this Sandy Springs page the official video we link is titled #021 - FDG PET / CT for Kidney, Bladder and Testicular Cancers. Topics noted in the public listing include Who This Episode Is For. Those short phrases come from the public YouTube description; we have not added quotes.