Why is there fever with renal cell carcinoma?

[mofonyx]

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As the thread title states, I'm curious to why there would be fever with renal cell carcinoma?

A bit odd to have fever with cancer, is it not? Unless I am absolutely daft here.

Please enlighten me, thanks!

 

[KeratinPearls]

As the thread title states, I'm curious to why there would be fever with renal cell carcinoma?

A bit odd to have fever with cancer, is it not? Unless I am absolutely daft here.

Please enlighten me, thanks!

I dont think it's unusual to have fever with cancer.

 

[mofonyx]

http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default.asp?page=12854

I found my own answer. Silly me not to google it first.

"The cancers most likely to cause fevers are

• Non Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL)
• Hodgkin's lymphoma
• Acute leukaemia
• Kidney cancer (renal cell cancer)
• Liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma)
• Bone cancer
• Adrenal gland tumours such as phaeochromocytomas
• Tumours in the part of the brain called the hypothalamus"

 

[yaah]

Cancer is a common differential diagnosis for fevers of unknown origin.

 

[SomeDoc]

As the thread title states, I'm curious to why there would be fever with renal cell carcinoma?

A bit odd to have fever with cancer, is it not? Unless I am absolutely daft here.

Please enlighten me, thanks!

Renal cell carcinomas and several other specific carcinomas (breast carcinomas, osteosarcomas) are associated with the production of the cytokine TNF-alpha (TNFA) [in addition to TGF-Beta], formerly known as cachexin. TNFA is pyrogenic.