Booklet: What You Need to Know about Renal Cell Carcinoma

Introduction

Each year, more than 28,000 people in the United States learn that they have kidney cancer. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has written this booklet to help people with kidney cancer and their families and friends better understand this disease. We hope others will read it as well to learn more about kidney cancer.

Words that may be new to readers appear in italics. Definitions of these and other terms related to kidney cancer can be found in the Glossary. For some words, a "sounds-like" spelling is also given.

This booklet discusses symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and followup care. It also has information to help patients cope with kidney cancer.

Our knowledge about kidney cancer keeps increasing. For up-to-date information or to order this publication, call the NCI-supported Cancer Information Service (CIS) toll free at 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237).

The CIS staff uses a National Cancer Institute cancer information database called PDQ and other NCI resources to answer callers' questions. Cancer information specialists can send callers information from PDQ and other NCI materials about cancer, its treatment, and living with the disease.

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