Prostate Cancer, Kidney Transplant Wait Time, and Mortality in Maintenance Dialysis Patients: A Cohort Study Using Linked United States Renal Data System Data.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale & objective

The impact of prostate cancer on mortality in patients with end-stage kidney disease may be different from the general population. Prostate cancer may also delay the kidney transplant but has not been studied in a population-based cohort. We examined how prostate cancer influenced time to kidney transplant and death in a dialysis population.

Study design

Retrospective population-based, risk-set propensity score-matched cohort study.

Setting & participants

Men, 40-79 years old, who were dialysis-dependent Medicare beneficiaries without prior documented prostate cancer, from the United States Renal Data System.

Exposures

Incident prostate cancer, identified using International Classification of Disease, Ninth Revision, Clinical Mod

SUBMITTER: Sarabu N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8664748 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature