Open AccessThe Epidemiology and Risk Factors for Renal Cancer
Author(s) -
Tahir Qayyum,
Grenville Oades,
Paul G. Horgan,
Michael Aitchison,
Joanne Edwards
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
current urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.476
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1661-7657
pISSN - 1661-7649
DOI - 10.1159/000343534
Subject(s) - medicine , epidemiology , incidence (geometry) , cancer , etiology , epidemiology of cancer , malignancy , obesity , kidney cancer , risk factor , environmental health , intensive care medicine , breast cancer , physics , optics
Renal cancer is a frequently occurring malignancy with over 270,000 new cases diagnosed and it being responsible for 110,000 deaths annually on a global basis. Incidence rates have gradually increased whilst mortality rates are starting to plateau.
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