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What an incredible Kidney Cancer Awareness Week 2025 was, and it was all thanks to your support.

This was possibly one of the best of our 11 years as the response to our daily blogs was incredible thank you to everyone involved. We welcomed over 80 people to our three webinars, thank you to all our presenters for supporting us with your time and talents.

Our limited-edition T’s and sweatshirts sold like wildfire! Look out for the launch of our new branded products including much-requested hoodies in a few weeks.

Thank you to every single person who joined in and helped increase awareness across social media. Our Facebook interaction rose by almost 500%, reach rose by over 450%! On its own, a video message on TikTok from James Whale has had (at the time of writing)  131.1k and Umesh Patel’s video promoting his patient blog has received almost 40k views, too!

On top of this, we really made a noise. We rattled cages in the national press securing 17 stories on our annual survey results including The Sunday Telegraph, The Sun, Mirror, Mail, The Lancet, and a flood of regional online titles. Through your incredible support kidney cancer is climbing up the consciousness and agenda of the UK media.

But we’ll not let all your hard work, wearing green, sharing stories, and building this momentum go to waste. We will keep talking, and shouting about kidney cancer, and keep pressing the media for coverage to make sure it’s always on the minds of healthcare professionals, and on the agenda of government decision-makers, and the media, and ensure the public are aware of symptoms.

Our goal is to see diagnosis rates increase death rates plummet and instead of kidney cancer rising to the 6th most common cancer in the UK as it has just dome, let’s work to get it travelling the other way and out of that horrible Top 10 altogether.

Stay healthy and stay aware. Thank you

We are looking forward to supporting World Kidney Cancer Awareness Day in June.

<a href="https://www.kcuk.org.uk/author/mp/" target="_self">Malcolm Packer</a>

Malcolm Packer

Malcolm is Chief Executive Officer at Kidney Cancer UK and Kidney Cancer Scotland and has worked with the charity in various capacities for over 15 years.