In this review we summarized the current knowledge and available data on four emerging, provisional renal entities, that include ALK-RCC, which is already included in the WHO 2016 classification as an ‘emerging/provisional’ entity, as well as three previously unrecognized entities that are not currently included in the WHO classification, eosinophilic solid and cystic renal cell carcinoma (ESC RCC), low-grade oncocytic renal tumor (LOT) and high-grade oncocytic renal tumor (HOT) of kidney. Here, ALK is linked to renal cell carcinoma.