Overall and Site-Specific Cancer Mortality in Patients on Dialysis and after Kidney Transplant.

ABSTRACT: Background Patients with ESRD have a substantially increased cancer risk, but few studies have examined the patterns of cancer mortality along a patient's journey from dialysis to transplantation. We identified all Australian patients on dialysis and patients with transplants from 1980 to 2014 from the Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry. Using standardized mortality ratios (SMRs), we compared cancer mortality among patients on dialysis and patients with transplants versus the general population (overall and by age, sex, year, and site); we also performed a subgroup analysis excluding patients with preexisting cancers. We followed 52,936 patients on dialysis and 16,820 transplant recipients for 170,055 and 128,352 patient-years, respectively. There were 2739 cancer d

SUBMITTER: Au EH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6405152 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature