Editing Kidney Cancer: Epidemiology and Pathogenesis (section)

=== Incidence ===

* Incidence has been increasing due to (2):
# Increased use of diagnostic imaging
#* Greatest increase has been in small, clinically localized renal amsses which now represent > 40% of incident tumours.
# Increased prevalence of risk factors (e.g. obesity), see below

*'''Worldwide'''
**Incidence rates are higher in developed countries
*** Likely due to increased use of diagnostic imaging
* '''US'''[https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3322/caac.21763]
** Includes renal pelvis cancers
** '''Estimated incidence 2023: 81,800''' (2022: 79,000)
* '''Canada'''[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32122974/]
** Includes renal pelvis cancers
** Estimated incidence 2020: 7,500
*** 10th most commonly diagnosed cancer in Canada