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Kidney cancer
The usual type of kidney (renal) cancer is a carcinoma.The commonest type is the clear cell type and this is the one associated with VHL gene mutations. However, a significant minority of cancers are of the papillary type and another subset arise, not from the parenchymal kidney, but from the pelvis - these usually being of transitional cell histology and more resembling a bladder cancer; indeed there may well be a multiplicity of such transitional cell cancers in the urothelium.
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