What are the types of kidney cancer?

Kidney cancer is not just one disease.  There are a number of different subtypes, each of which responds somewhat differently to treatment.

Kidney cancers…

1. can come from different cells of the kidney and thus have different “flavours” or “sub-types” of cancer (“histology”)
2. can be more slow-growing or more aggressive (“grade”)
3. can be larger or smaller, or have spread outside the kidney (“stage”).

All of these factors can affect:

• How aggressive the tumour is and how likely it is to spread.
• Which treatment(s) (if any) you should have.
• Which clinical trials you could take part in.