Cancer statistics: Kidney

Kidney cancer: Incidence

Kidney cancer is the eighth most common cancer in the UK. In 2008, 8,732 cases of kidney cancer were diagnosed.

Of these cancer cases, 5,362 were in men, and 3,370 were in women.

Kidney cancer: Mortality

In the UK in 2009, there were 3,743 deaths from kidney cancer.

Of these deaths, 2,274 were men and 1,469 were women.

Proportion preventable

Smoking is a risk factor for kidney cancer. But scientists also estimate the following proportion of kidney cancer cases could be prevented in the UK:

Lifestyle factor	Does doing more increase or decrease risk?	Approximate % preventable in UK through healthy changes
Body fatness	Increase	19

 

You can find out more about how these preventability estimates were calculated. For detailed information about what change would be needed for each factor, download Appendix A of the Policy Report on the Diet and Cancer Report website.

The figures on incidence and mortality come from the following sources: for England (incidence); for Wales (incidence); for England and Wales (mortality); for Scotland; and for Northern Ireland.