Editing Kidney Cancer: Epidemiology and Pathogenesis (section)

=== Mortality ===
* '''US'''[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35020204/]
** Includes renal pelvis cancers
** '''Estimated mortality 2022: 13,920''' (2021: 13,780[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33433946/])

* 5-year relative survival (survival relative to population without disease) based on disease stage at diagnosis[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33433946/]:
** Localized: 93%
** Regional: 70%
** Distant: 13%
** All stages: 75%
* '''Most lethal of all GU malignancies'''
** 5-year relative survival all stages for[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33433946/]:
*** Prostate cancer: 98%
*** Bladder: 77%
* Survival has been increasing (≈1% year since 2004)