prognosis of kidney cancer

Last edited 05/2019

  • Half (50%) of people diagnosed with kidney cancer in England and Wales survive their disease for ten years or more (2010-11)

  • Almost 6 in 10 (56%) people diagnosed with kidney cancer in England and Wales survive their disease for five years or more (2010-11)

  • More than 7 in 10 (72%) people diagnosed with kidney cancer in England and Wales survive their disease for one year or more (2010-11)

  • Kidney cancer survival is higher in men than women at one- and five-years but similar at ten-years

  • Kidney cancer survival in England is highest for people diagnosed aged under 50 years old (2009-2013)

  • Around three-quarters of people in England diagnosed with Kidney cancer aged 15-49 survive their disease for five years or more, compared with more than a third of people diagnosed aged 80 and over (2009-2013)

  • Kidney cancer survival is improving and has increased in the last 40 years in the UK

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