P Maisonneuve, L Agodoa, R Gellert, J H Stewart, G Buccianti, A B Lowenfels, R A Wolfe, E Jones, A P Disney, D Briggs, M McCredie, P Boyle
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have suggested that the frequency of cancer is higher in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) than in the general population, but have not established whether this increase is confined to certain cancers or to certain categories of ESRD patients. The aim of this study was to examine the risk of cancer in a large cohort of patients treated by dialysis but not transplantation. METHODS: We assembled a cohort of 831,804 patients who received dialysis during the period 1980-94 for ESRD in the USA, Europe, Australia, or New Zealand...
July 10, 1999: Lancet