MedDRA preferred term

Renal cancer: adverse event reports recording this term

47,599 reports to FDA record it, 2004–2026; 0.2% of the database.

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Adverse event reports submitted to FDA do not undergo extensive validation or verification. Therefore, a causal relationship cannot be established between product and reactions listed in a report. While a suspected relationship may exist, it is not medically validated and should not be the sole source of information for clinical decision making or other assumptions about the safety or efficacy of a product. Additionally, it is important to remember that adverse event reports represent a small percentage of total usage numbers of a product. Common products may have a higher number of adverse events due to the higher total number of people using the product. openFDA, FDA

FDA adds: "There is no certainty that the reported event (adverse event or medication error) was actually due to the product. FDA does not require that a causal relationship between a product and event be proven, and reports do not always contain enough detail to properly evaluate an event." The information in these reports "cannot be used to estimate the incidence of these events."

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47,599
reports recording the term: 0.2% of all reports; 331
reports, 12 months to June 2026: 339 in the 12 months before; 98.8%
marked serious by the reporter: 57.4% across all reports; 5.8%
record death among outcomes, as reported: 9.1% across all reports

"Renal cancer" is a MedDRA preferred term recorded in 47,599 adverse event reports received by FDA, 0.2% of the database, from September 2004 to June 2026. The term is chosen by whoever codes the report to match what the reporter described.

331 reports recorded it in the 12 months to June 2026, close to the 339 of the 12 months before. FDA releases FAERS data quarterly, so the newest months are incomplete and grow in later releases. Of reports recording this term, 98.8% are marked serious, 5.8% include death among the outcomes and 4.8% include hospitalisation, as reported.

The drugs listed most often as suspect products in those reports are Zantac, Ranitidine and Ranitidine hydrochloride. That order mostly follows how many reports each drug has overall; the table also gives the term's share within each drug's own reports. FDA states that "a causal relationship cannot be established between product and reactions listed in a report" and that for any given report "there is no certainty that a suspected drug caused the event."

Reports by month, five years

FDA releases FAERS data quarterly, so the newest months are incomplete and grow in later releases.

Drugs listed as suspect products in these reports

Drug	Class	Reports with this term	Share of the drug's own reports
Zantac	—	29,950	9.4%
Ranitidine	Histamine-2 receptor antagonist	23,815	12.2%
Ranitidine hydrochloride	Histamine-2 receptor antagonist	6,806	10.8%
Ranitidine Hci	—	753	16.5%
Sutent	Kinase inhibitor	564	1.7%
Inlyta	Kinase inhibitor	336	2.1%
Humira	—	313	0%
Enbrel	Tumor necrosis factor blocker	237	0%
Votrient	Kinase inhibitor	199	0.9%
Valsartan	Angiotensin 2 receptor blocker	142	0.8%
Remicade	Tumor necrosis factor blocker	141	0.1%
Nexium	Proton pump inhibitor	124	0.1%
Afinitor	Kinase inhibitor	120	0.4%
Skyrizi	Interleukin-23 antagonist	110	0.1%
Cabometyx	Kinase inhibitor	100	0.2%
Prevacid	Proton pump inhibitor	98	0.2%
Methotrexate	Folate analog metabolic inhibitor	96	0%
Rituximab	CD20-directed cytolytic antibody	85	0.1%
Nexavar	Kinase inhibitor	81	0.5%
Omeprazole	Proton pump inhibitor	80	0.1%
Prilosec	Proton pump inhibitor	74	0.2%
Avonex	Interferon beta	71	0.1%
Cosentyx	Interleukin-17A antagonist	64	0%
Stelara	Interleukin-12 antagonist	62	0.1%
Actos	Peroxisome proliferator receptor alpha agonist	61	0.4%

Drugs with a page on this site, ordered by the number of their reports recording this term. The last column is the term's share within that drug's own reports, against 0.2% across the whole database. FDA states that adverse event reports "represent a small percentage of total usage numbers of a product", that "common products may have a higher number of adverse events due to the higher total number of people using the product", and that the data "by themselves are not an indicator of the safety profile of the drug or biologic."

By pharmacologic class

Class	Reports with this term	Share of class reports	Median drug in class
Histamine-2 receptor antagonist	30,621	11.3%	0%
Kinase inhibitor	1,616	0.2%	0%
Proton pump inhibitor	706	0.1%	0.1%
Tumor necrosis factor blocker	572	0.1%	0%
Angiotensin 2 receptor blocker	301	0.1%	0%
Insulin analog	141	0%	0%
Janus kinase inhibitor	138	0%	0%
CD20-directed cytolytic antibody	125	0%	0%
Interleukin-23 antagonist	119	0.1%	0%
Folate analog metabolic inhibitor	113	0%	0%

Classes ordered by count. Class shares follow the class's overall report volume as much as anything else.

Patients in these reports

Patient age

Under 20%4

2 to 110%13

12 to 170.1%24

18 to 447%3,312

45 to 6429.4%14,012

65 to 7411.5%5,484

75 and over4.4%2,075

Age not given47.6%22,675

Patient sex

Female31.7%15,098

Male51.1%24,309

Not given17.2%8,192

Grey bar: all 20,646,523 reports in the database. 94.7% of these reports give the United States as the country.

Questions about "Renal cancer"

What does "Renal cancer" mean in an adverse event report?

It is a MedDRA preferred term, the dictionary FDA uses to code what a reporter described. The report's own description is not published by openFDA and is not shown here.

How many reports record renal cancer?

47,599 reports through June 2026 (0.2% of all reports), 331 of them in the latest 12 months.

Which drugs appear most often in these reports?

Zantac (29,950), Ranitidine (23,815), Ranitidine hydrochloride (6,806), Ranitidine Hci (753) and Sutent (564). Drugs with many reports overall lead almost every term's list. FDA states that adverse event reports "represent a small percentage of total usage numbers of a product", that "common products may have a higher number of adverse events due to the higher total number of people using the product", and that the data "by themselves are not an indicator of the safety profile of the drug or biologic."

Does a drug appearing here mean it was responsible for this reaction?

No. FDA states that "a causal relationship cannot be established between product and reactions listed in a report" and that for any given report "there is no certainty that a suspected drug caused the event."

I have this symptom. What should I do?

This site cannot assess anyone. A pharmacist or clinician can; for an emergency, call the local emergency number. Nothing on this page is medical advice.

Where this comes from. Counts are built from the openFDA Drug Adverse Event (FAERS) bulk export released 28 Sep 2026, which holds reports FDA received through 30 Jun 2026. Drug names are as reported, resolved to the brand or generic name on the FDA label where openFDA's harmonisation matched them; classes are the pharmacologic class (EPC) from the label and the National Drug Code Directory of 17 Sep 2026. Terms are pooled across spelling and capitalisation variants of one MedDRA preferred term. No report narrative, lot number, patient detail or reporter identity is published. See the methodology and sources; FDA's record is authoritative, and corrections are handled within five working days.

Drug data (FAERS) through 30 Jun 2026; device data (MAUDE) through 31 Aug 2026. Not medical advice.