A recent survey by the International Kidney Cancer Coalition (IKCC) showed that many patients and carers are unsure how to keep their kidneys healthy. For World Kidney Cancer Day 2025, the IKCC hosted a Global Patient & Carer Symposium with experts and patients discussing kidney health for those living with kidney cancer.

In this video interview, Steven Pointon talks with Dr Steve Bromage, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Stepping Hill Hospital, about the difference between kidney disease and kidney cancer, what happens to kidney function when a kidney is removed, monitoring kidney function, and how to manage kidney disease.

In this video interview, Steven Pointon talks with Michelle Greenwood, Macmillan Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist, about the role of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to discuss the best treatment plan for each individual patient.

In this video interview, Steven Pointon talks with Christine Jackson, Person Centred Counsellor, about how person-centred counselling can help a patient and their loved ones during and beyond kidney cancer treatment.

If you need help with anxiety, depression or fear, please take a look at our Help Sheet on Counselling.

In this video interview, Sharon Deveson Kell talks with Professor Grant Stewart, a urological surgeon from Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, about why new treatments are tested, what is a clinical trial and why are they run, what are the different phases of clinical trials, why are people with rare subtypes of kidney cancer, brain metastases or other conditions/diseases excluded from trials, and publishing of negative clinical trials.

For more information about clinical trials, please visit About clinical trials on our website here.

In this video interview, Sharon Deveson Kell talks with Professor Grant Stewart, a urological surgeon from Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, about involvement of patients and the public in the design of clinical trials, trials to compare treatments, and why there are not more hospitals running clinical trials in the UK.

For more information about clinical trials, please visit About clinical trials on our website here.

In this presentation, Steve Pointon draws on his own experience of a diagnosis of advanced kidney cancer to talk about how employers can better look after the mental health of their employees when they are diagnosed with a chronic or life-threatening condition.

If you need help with anxiety, depression or fear, please take a look at our Help Sheet on Counselling. If you need legal or social welfare advice, please visit the websites on our Legal and social welfare advice page.

This interview with Professor James Larkin, Medical Oncologist from the Royal Marsden NHS Trust describes the use of blood tests that are taken when kidney cancer is being diagnosed and during treatment.

For more information about laboratory tests for kidney cancer, please read our Essential Guide on diagnosis and tests for kidney cancer.

In this video interview, Karen McNee talks with Mr Steve Leung, consultant urological surgeon, and Lisa Dunbar, renal cancer nurse specialist, both from the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, about the rehabilitation of kidney cancer patients following surgery to remove their tumour.

For more information about surgery for kidney cancer, please read our Essential Guide on surgery for kidney cancer.

In this video interview, Karen McNee talks with Bruno Malfrici, a Dietitian specialising in diets for people with kidney disease, about a healthy diet for people with kidney cancer.

For clarification and for anyone who is hard of hearing, we have outlined the main points of Bruno’s interview here: Diet and kidney cancer – part 1

In this video interview, Karen McNee continues her discussion with Bruno Malfrici, a Dietitian specialising in diets for people with kidney disease, about the benefits of various diets for people with kidney cancer.

For clarification and for anyone who is hard of hearing, we have outlined the main points of Bruno’s interview here: Diet and kidney cancer – part 2.

In this video interview, Steven Pointon talks with Christine Jackson, Person Centred Counsellor, about how person-centred counselling can help a patient and their loved ones following a diagnosis of kidney cancer.

If you need help with anxiety, depression or fear, please take a look at our Help Sheet on Counselling.

In this video interview, Dr Lynne Russon, Consultant in Palliative Care at St James’ Hospital in Leeds, describes the differences between palliative care, supportive care and end of life care, and when each intervention is given in the kidney cancer treatment pathway.

If you need help with anxiety, depression or fear, please take a look at our Help Sheet on Counselling.

During this interview with Professor James Larkin, Medical Oncologist from the Royal Marsden NHS Trust, he describes the diagnostic scans that are commonly used to diagnose kidney cancer.

For more information about the diagnosis of kidney cancer, please take a look at our Essential Guide on diagnosis and tests for kidney cancer.

In this video, Karen McNee talks to Lynn Ho, Uro-oncology Research Nurse at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh about clinical trials, why they are needed, how to find out about clinical trials, and what happens on a clinical trial.

For more information about clinical trials visit About clinical trials on our website. To find a clinical trial near you visit our Clinical trials database.

A Click & Chat session with Alison Manning, Person-centred Counsellor and Steve Pointon, Community Development, Action Kidney Cancer, talk about psychosocial help for kidney cancer patients.

During this Click & Chat special, Mr Steve Leung, consultant urological surgeon from the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh talks about the follow-up after a nephrectomy operation, the tests that are carried out, what happens to the kidney, post-operative recovery, pathology reports and further treatment if needed.