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SUBMITTER: Kitahara CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5636643 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kitahara C M CM Yanik E L EL Ladenson P W PW Hernandez B Y BY Lynch C F CF Pawlish K S KS Engels E A EA
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 20170530 11
Solid organ transplant recipients have an elevated incidence of thyroid cancer. We evaluated a wide range of potential risk factors in a cohort of 229 300 U.S. solid organ transplant recipients linked with 15 stage/regional cancer registries (1987-2012). Incidence rate ratios (IRRs) were adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, transplanted organ, year of transplantation, and time since transplantation. Hazard ratios (HRs) for death and/or graft failure were adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, ...[more]