Each year around 1.9 lakh patients are diagnosed of kidney cancer around the world. Out of every fifty patients suffering from cancer, one has kidney cancer. Kidney cancer can be renal cell cancers and renal pelvis cancers.

- Risk Factor:
Older people are more prone to Kidney cancer. People above 60 years of age account for two-thirds of patients suffering from kidney cancer. Men are at increased risk of getting kidney cancer than women. Obesity too increases the risk along with smoking, which increases the risk by two to three times. People working in the iron and steel industries are also more prone to developing kidney cancer. Of all the patients diagnose with kidney cancer more than half of them succumb to the disease.

- Symptoms:
The most common symptom of kidney cancer is that blood is passed along with urine. One could also feel tired, lose weight and sweat a lot. Pain could be felt in the lower back and there could be swelling in kidney.

- Diagnosis:
Kidney cancer can be first diagnosed through X-rays, CAT scans and ultrasound. But the most reliable method of diagnosing is biopsy through which a sample of a tissue is taken out to ascertain whether it is cancerous.

- Treatment:
Kidney cancer can be treated by removing the affected kidney through surgery. A person can lead a normal life even if one of the two kidneys is removed. If diagnosed during the initial stages when cancerous cells have not spread, only the affected part of the kidney can be removed.

If the diagnosis is done late and cancer has affected parts outside the kidney, those affected parts along with the kidney would be removed. If the tumor is too large and cannot be removed doctor will try to shrink the tumor.

If diagnosed at an early stage when cancer has not affected parts outside the kidney, cancer can be cured. But if the tumor has grown outside the kidney it becomes difficult to cure.