Transplant Onconephrology in Patients With Kidney Transplants.

ABSTRACT: Cancer is a leading cause of death in patients with kidney transplantation. Patients with kidney transplants are 10- to 200-times more likely to develop cancers after transplant than the general population, depending on the cancer type. Recent advances in cancer therapies have dramatically improved survival outcomes; however, patients with kidney transplants face unique challenges of immunosuppression management, cancer screening, and recurrence of cancer after transplant. Patients with a history of cancer tend to be excluded from transplant candidacy or are required to have long cancer-free wait time before wait-listing. The strategy of pretransplant wait time management may need to be revisited as cancer therapies improve, which is most applicable to patients with a history of multiple m

SUBMITTER: Murakami N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9326185 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature