[HTML][HTML] Cancer after kidney transplantation in the United States
BL Kasiske, JJ Snyder, DT Gilbertson… - American Journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
Previous reports of cancer after kidney transplantation have been limited by small numbers
of patients in single-center studies and incomplete ascertainment of cases in large registries.
We examined rates of malignancies among first-time recipients of deceased or living donor
kidney transplantations in 1995–2001 (n= 35 765) using Medicare billing claims. For most
common tumors, eg colon, lung, prostate, stomach, esophagus, pancreas, ovary and breast,
cancer rates were roughly twofold higher after kidney transplantation compared with the …
of patients in single-center studies and incomplete ascertainment of cases in large registries.
We examined rates of malignancies among first-time recipients of deceased or living donor
kidney transplantations in 1995–2001 (n= 35 765) using Medicare billing claims. For most
common tumors, eg colon, lung, prostate, stomach, esophagus, pancreas, ovary and breast,
cancer rates were roughly twofold higher after kidney transplantation compared with the …