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Kidney Disease
- In the UK today, over 180,000 people are undergoing treatment for kidney disease. Although not all kidney disease results in the need for an organ transplant, there is still a national shortage of donor organs. There are approximately 1700 kidney transplants carried out each year
Source: Health Insurance August 2004
- The number of cases of kidney cancer has risen by a startling 68% over the last 20 years.
Source: BBC News 2002
- Every year in the U, in excess of 7,000 people die from Kidney failure.
- Approxiamately 100,000 people in the UK have kidney diseases, excluding cystitis or kidney stones.
- Treatment of kidney disease currently costs the NHS £2 billion annually.
Source: National Kidney Research Fund
