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Prostate Cancer, Kidney Transplant Wait Time, and Mortality in Maintenance Dialysis Patients: A Cohort Study Using Linked United States Renal Data System Data.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale & objective

The impact of prostate cancer on mortality in patients with end-stage kidney disease may be different from the general population. Prostate cancer may also delay the kidney transplant but has not been studied in a population-based cohort. We examined how prostate cancer influenced time to kidney transplant and death in a dialysis population.

Study design

Retrospective population-based, risk-set propensity score-matched cohort study.

Setting & participants

Men, 40-79 years old, who were dialysis-dependent Medicare beneficiaries without prior documented prostate cancer, from the United States Renal Data System.

Exposures

Incident prostate cancer, identified using International Classification of Disease, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification system diagnosis code 185.

Outcomes

Time to kidney transplant and death.

Analytical approach

Propensity-based risk-set matching to reduce bias between cases and controls. Cox proportional hazards model for time to death, and Fine-Gray competing risk model for time to kidney transplant.

Results

Among a total of 588,478 male dialysis patients who met the eligibility criteria, 18,162 had claims for prostate cancer. After propensity-based risk-set matching, 15,554 pairs of prostate cancer cases and controls were identified. Among the matched pairs, survival rates were 76%, 48%, and 30% at 1, 3, and 5 years in the prostate cancer group, compared with 80%, 51%, and 33% in the control group, with relative mortality of 95%, 94%, and 91% respectively (log-rank test P < 0.001). Prostate cancer was associated with a 22% lower likelihood of kidney transplant (HR: 0.78; 95% CI: 0.72-0.85) and 11% higher likelihood of death (HR: 1.11; 95% CI: 1.08-1.14) compared with controls. Kidney transplant was associated with a 4-fold improvement in overall survival, both in patients with and without prostate cancer (HR: 0.20; 95% CI: 0.18-0.21).

Limitations

Retrospective registry study.

Conclusions

Prostate cancer is associated with a modest increase in the risk of death and time to transplant in patients with end-stage kidney disease. Kidney transplant is associated with the same degree of survival benefit among those with pretransplant prostate cancer as those without.

SUBMITTER: Sarabu N

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8664748 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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