Kidney Cancer Survival Rates: An Introduction
The
kidney cancer survival rate indicates the percentage of people with a certain type and stage of kidney cancer who survive the disease for a specific period of time after their diagnosis.
For the purposes of this eMedTV article, the term "kidney cancer" refers to renal cell carcinoma (also known as renal cell cancer), the most common of the
kidney cancer types.
In most cases, statistics refer to the five-year kidney cancer survival rate. The five-year survival rate is the percentage of people who are alive five years after a
kidney cancer diagnosis, whether they have few or no signs or symptoms of kidney cancer, are free of disease, or are receiving treatment for kidney cancer. Kidney cancer survival rates are based on large groups of people; they cannot be used to predict what will happen to a particular patient. No two patients are exactly alike, and
kidney cancer treatment and responses to treatment vary greatly.
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