For kidney cancer what are the risk factors?
Kidney cancer becomes more common as you get older like most cancer. Two-thirds of all kidney cancers occur in people over the age of 60. Kidney cancer is also more common in men: 60% of cases and in men and only 40% in women. Obesity is a major risk factor, involved in one quarter of all cases of kidney cancer.Another major risk is smoking, which increases the risk of getting kidney cancer between two and three times. for people with kidney diseases and people working in the iron and steel industries. Smaller increases in risk have also been found
