Cancer Mortality Among Solid Organ Transplant Recipients in the United States During 1987-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Solid organ transplant recipients (ie, "recipients") have elevated cancer risk and reduced survival after a cancer diagnosis. Evaluation of cancer mortality among recipients can facilitate improved outcomes from cancers arising before and after transplantation.

Methods

We linked the US transplant registry to the National Death Index to ascertain the causes of 126 474 deaths among 671 127 recipients (1987-2018). We used Poisson regression to identify risk factors for cancer mortality and calculated standardized mortality ratios to compare cancer mortality in recipients with that in the general population. Cancer deaths verified with a corresponding cancer diagnosis from a cancer registry were classified as death from pretransplant or posttransplant cancers.

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SUBMITTER: Wang JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10615843 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature