Risk Factors of Kidney Cancer
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 2354
Editors
Interests: cancer health disparities; kidney cancer; prostate cancer; cancer prevention
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Dear Colleagues,
Incidence of kidney cancer is rising worldwide, and some countries and subgroups of populations experience uneven burdens of kidney cancer with sharper increase in incidence rates compared to the others. Kidney cancer mortality rates have declined over the years with improvement of effective treatments, but not all populations have equally benefited from these advancements. Established risk factors of kidney cancer development include excess body weight and adiposity, hypertension, smoking, kidney disease, race and ethnicity, genetics, and environmental and occupational exposures, and being male. Risk factors, such as diabetes and physical inactivity, increase the risk of poorer survival. Social and structural drivers of health are underlying factors of high incidence and mortality that influence risk factors as well as access to healthcare. This access is critical for early detection in individuals with multiple risk factors, as the 5-year survival rate for localized disease is approximately 93%, compared to only 15% for advanced metastatic cancer. However, additional risk factors show conflicting evidence of association with incidence and mortality. The impact of risk factors for kidney cancer development on patient survival also warrants further investigation.
For this Special Issue, we welcome a wide range of studies, from prevention and early detection to population-based, clinical, and molecular studies, both original investigations and reviews, that investigate how risk factors, synergistically, interactively, and/or independently, increase kidney cancer incidence and mortality. Further understanding the risk factors will inform future studies that focus on preventing kidney cancer incidence and mortality.
Dr. Ken Batai
Dr. Salvatore La Rosa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- prevention
- survivorship
- renal cell carcinoma
- kidney cancer epidemiology
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