Kidney Cancer

Before your doctors can discuss treatment options with you they need to know how far your cancer has progressed and how quickly the cancer is growing or spreading by staging and grading. know how far your cancer has progressed and how quickly the cancer is growing or spreading. This is called staging and grading.

With most cancers there is no direct cause and kidney cancer is no exception. For many people the cause of the cancer is never found. However, certain lifestyle factors can increase the risk of developing the disease

Kidney cancer rarely affects children; about 45-50 paediatric cases are diagnosed in the UK each year. About 75 per cent of childhood kidney cancer occurs in the under-fives.