MONDAY, May 19 (HealthDay News) -- Compared to a decade ago, kidney cancer patients in the United States are much more likely to be diagnosed with smaller tumors in the earliest, most treatable stage of the disease, resulting in a slightly higher survival rate.
Researchers analyzed the records of more than 200,000 kidney cancer patients in the National Cancer Database and found that stage 1 kidney cancers increased from about 43 percent of all kidney cancer cases in 1993 to 57 percent in 2004, while rates of stages 2, 3 and 4 kidney cancers declined.
