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A comprehensive statistic resource for life and health professionals.

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Kidney Disease

  • In the UK, kidney cancer is the ninth most common cause of cancer death in men and the thirteenth in women. 3,777 people died from kidney cancer in 2006, acounting for just over 2 per cent of all cancer deaths in the UK.

Source: Cancer Research, 2008

  • Every year in the UK, in excess of 7,000 people die from Kidney failure.
  • Approximately 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