What is Kidney Cancer?
What is Kidney Cancer?
- Kidney Cancer: Cancer that forms in tissues of the kidneys.
Kidney Cancer: Introduction
Types of Kidney Cancer:
Types of Kidney Cancer:
- Kidney cancer category by type of cell affected:
- Renal cell cancer (carcinoma)
- Transitional cell cancer (carcinoma)
- Wilms' tumor - a common childhood kidney tumor.
- more types...»
Broader types of Kidney Cancer:
How many people get Kidney Cancer?
Incidence (annual) of Kidney Cancer: 31,800 annual cases in USA (SEER 2002 estimate); more than 28,000 cases annually in the United States
Incidence Rate of Kidney Cancer: approx 1 in 8,553 or 0.01% or 31,800 people in USA [about data]
Lifetime risk of Kidney Cancer:
1 in 143 women and 1 in 76 men will develop kidney cancer during their lifetime in Australia 2000 (AIHW and AACR, AIHW National Mortality Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
Incidence of Kidney Cancer: Each year, more than 28,000 people in the United States
learn that they have kidney cancer . (Source: excerpt from What You Need To Know About Kidney Cancer: NCI)
Who gets Kidney Cancer?
Profile for Kidney Cancer: It occurs most often
between the ages of 50 and 70. (Source: excerpt from What You Need To Know About Kidney Cancer: NCI)
Gender Profile for Kidney Cancer: It affects almost twice as many
men as women. (Source: excerpt from What You Need To Know About Kidney Cancer: NCI)
Race Profile for Kidney Cancer: In addition, kidney cancer is somewhat more
common among African American men than White men. (Source: excerpt from What You Need To Know About Kidney Cancer: NCI)
How serious is Kidney Cancer?
Prognosis of Kidney Cancer: The prognosis can vary considerably depending on what stage the cancer is diagnosed at, the individual response to treatment and the overall health of the patient.
Complications of Kidney Cancer:
see complications of Kidney Cancer
Average life years lost for Kidney Cancer: 15.3 years for kidney/renal cancers (SEER)1
Deaths for Kidney Cancer: 11,116 deaths reported in USA 1999 (NVSR Sep 2001)
What causes Kidney Cancer?
Causes of Kidney Cancer: see causes of Kidney Cancer
Risk factors for Kidney Cancer:
see
risk factors for Kidney Cancer
What are the symptoms of Kidney Cancer?
Symptoms of Kidney Cancer:
see symptoms of Kidney Cancer
Complications of Kidney Cancer:
see complications of Kidney Cancer
Can anyone else get Kidney Cancer?
Contagion of cancer: generally not; see details in contagion of cancer.
Inheritance:
see inheritance of Kidney Cancer
Kidney Cancer: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Kidney Cancer.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Kidney Cancer.
How is it treated?
Doctors and Medical Specialists for Kidney Cancer: Urologist, Oncologist, Radiation oncologist
;
see also doctors and medical specialists for Kidney Cancer.
Treatments for Kidney Cancer:
see treatments for Kidney Cancer
Research for Kidney Cancer:
see research for Kidney Cancer
Society issues for Kidney Cancer
Hospitalization statistics for Kidney Cancer:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Kidney Cancer:
- 0.08% (10,509) of hospital consultant episodes were for malignant neoplasm of kidney excluding renal pelvis in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 85% of hospital consultant episodes for malignant neoplasm of kidney excluding renal pelvis required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 61% of hospital consultant episodes for malignant neoplasm of kidney excluding renal pelvis were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 39% of hospital consultant episodes for malignant neoplasm of kidney excluding renal pelvis were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- more statistics...»
Organs Affected by Kidney Cancer:
Organs and body systems related to Kidney Cancer include:
Name and Aliases of Kidney Cancer
Main name of condition: Kidney Cancer
Class of Condition for Kidney Cancer: cancer
Other names or spellings for Kidney Cancer:
kidney tumor, cancer of the kidney, renal cell carcinoma, Renal adenocarcinoma, Hypernephroma, Renal cell cancer, Renal cell carcinoma 1, RCC1
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