Hi All,

So my mum recently went for a CT Scan due to a mass found in her Kidney after she developed back pain. The mass was around 2.5cm and they intially thought it was a cyst but did a CT scan to check. They have unfortunatly come back within a few days to advise that it is suspicious of "Renal Cell Carcinoma" so she is going to going for a full MRI ( apparantly just part of the process) luckly the tumour seems containted within the Kidney and has not spread to bones, liver or blood! as I am sure you can all relate I am really worried as mum is perfectly fit and healthy and this just seems to come out of the blue!! the mass itself as not grown since the ultrasound a month ago which I can imagine can only be a good sign!

Just hoping anyone can give me an idea of what next steps are now and also silly question but its just worrying me... if not in blood stream and to the far side of the kidney is the chances of it spreading to other organs lungs etc very unlikly? I have stupidly been on the internet and worried myself! also what sort of recovery times are there if she has tumour removed or if the whole kidney is removed?

All help and advise would be greatly appreciated.

Jess x