At an early stage if the cancer is diagnosed, before it has spread outside the kidney, between 80 and 90% of patients can be cured. It is more difficult to treat Once the tumour spreads outside the kidney.Depending on their age and other factors, between 50% and 80% of patients diagnosed at this stage can be cured. Advanced kidney caner is very difficult to cure completely and only about one in six or seven patients can be cured. We are defining ‘cured’ as surviving five years after the first diagnosis For these figures.
