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7. Unexplained Weight Loss
In many cases of kidney cancer, a sudden weight loss naturally follows a decline in appetite, but it can also happen without a drastic change to your regular diet. One explanation is that rapidly growing cancer cells use up a good deal of the body’s energy supply, so you wind up losing weight without trying to do so. Cancer cells can also release substances that change the way your body uses calories, or impair your natural digestion and absorption. Eventually, this weight loss will lead to cachexia (the technical term for muscle wasting).
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