Open AccessPretransplant Cancer in Kidney Recipients in Relation to Recurrent and De Novo Cancer Incidence Posttransplantation and Implications for Graft and Patient Survival
Author(s) -
Christian Unterrainer,
Gerhard Opelz,
Bernd Döhler,
Caner Süsal
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/tp.0000000000002459
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , malignancy , transplantation , cancer , incidence (geometry) , kidney transplantation , basal cell carcinoma , oncology , proportional hazards model , gastroenterology , urology , confidence interval , physics , basal cell , optics
Whether kidney transplant recipients who were treated for a malignant tumor before transplantation are at an increased risk of developing a tumor posttransplantation has not been adequately quantified and characterized.