Trauma to kidney

Posted By Kathy Atkins on March 11, 1999 at 13:25:00:







I was in a rear collision car accident on 3/10/98 in which my
seat broke and I injured my back and bruised my right kidney.  I
received therapy for my back and went for a follow-up MRI in
December, 1998 (previous MRI was done in March).  This MRI showed
a mass in my right kidney.  I subsequently had my kidney removed
and there was a malignant mass removed.  I had been under a great
deal of stress after the accident.  Could this accident and the
stress have caused the mass in my kidney?  No one in my family
has ever had cancer.