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What Causes Sacral Chordoma?

My husband has a sacrum chordoma. It has metastisized to the liver, lungs, bone and blood. Hus urine is continually dark, cloudy, foamy, and white flurry things in it. He is on hospice care and they provide him with antibiotics for 14 days. 3 or 4 days after the antibiotics are finished the symptoms repeat. They have not given us a time frame but he is pretty much bed ridden. Are these urine infections a sign his kidneys are failing?
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Thanks for writing in.

Chordomas are cancer cells that arise from rest cells which start to grow in an adult. Chordoma involves the clivus area in skull and sacral region in the lower end of spine. These are two common locations where it might occur. However rarely it might involve the rest of the spine.

Since the chordoma has spread to the liver, lungs and bone, therefore he might be having advanced disease. His kidney function is to be monitored closely for any changes in function and also infection which has to be treated urgently. Cancer patients get week due to low immunity and this is the reason infection causing bacteria find it easy to attack various systems in these patients. Kidney function is studied by doing serum creatinine and blood urea levels which also gives the glomerular filtration rate. Please discuss these levels with his doctor.Please do not worry.
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What Causes Sacral Chordoma?

Hi, Thanks for writing in. Chordomas are cancer cells that arise from rest cells which start to grow in an adult. Chordoma involves the clivus area in skull and sacral region in the lower end of spine. These are two common locations where it might occur. However rarely it might involve the rest of the spine. Since the chordoma has spread to the liver, lungs and bone, therefore he might be having advanced disease. His kidney function is to be monitored closely for any changes in function and also infection which has to be treated urgently. Cancer patients get week due to low immunity and this is the reason infection causing bacteria find it easy to attack various systems in these patients. Kidney function is studied by doing serum creatinine and blood urea levels which also gives the glomerular filtration rate. Please discuss these levels with his doctor.Please do not worry.