Kidney Cancer and Emotional Wellbeing
Kidney cancer doesn’t only affect your physical health, it also impacts emotional wellbeing in ways such as anxiety about scans, changing relationships, isolation and worries about what the future holds. Our 2025 Global Patient Survey revealed 85% of kidney cancer patients experienced emotional wellbeing challenges. Yet far too many never talk about them with family, friends or their medical teams.
For World Kidney Cancer Day 2026, we’re raising awareness of emotional wellbeing for those living with kidney cancer, providing information and tools to help them talk more openly and access support if they need it.
FREE RESOURCE
Take the World Kidney Cancer Day Emotional Wellbeing Check-In
Five multiple-choice questions designed with a leading psycho-oncologist to help patients reflect on how kidney cancer may be affecting their emotional wellbeing.
- Who do you feel you can talk to?
- Have your relationships with friends and family changed?
- Are you doing enough exercise?
- Getting enough sleep?
Print out your answers and use them to start conversations about emotional wellbeing with your family, friends and medical team.
Register for the
World Kidney Cancer Day
Emotional Wellbeing Global Symposium
On 18 June at 2.00pm CEST, the IKCC is hosting a global symposium where patients, caregivers and health professionals will talk about the emotional wellbeing challenges of living with kidney cancer, how to manage them and where to get support.
Register to attend online, or receive a link to a recording after the event if the time zone is not convenient for you.
to attend live or receive a recording
QUICK SUPPORT
Practical tips for patients and caregivers
Visit the IKCC website for more information on where to find the support you need.
Join a patient support group so you can talk about your emotional wellbeing with others going through the same thing.
Talk about how you’re feeling with your family, friends and medical team. They all want to help, but you may need to start the conversation.
Take the World Kidney Cancer Day Emotional Wellbeing Check-In, designed with a leading psycho-oncologist.
Register for the World Kidney Cancer Day Emotional Wellbeing Global Symposium on 18 June 2026.
Contact an IKCC partner organisation in your country to find World Kidney Cancer Day events near you.
Our Sponsors
World Kidney Cancer Day would not be possible without the generous support of our industry sponsors. On behalf of the global kidney cancer community, we thank you.
