Post-transplant Cancer Incidence and Survival in Patients With or Without Pre-transplant Cancer

Post-transplant Cancer Incidence and Survival in Patients With or Without Pre-transplant Cancer

Patients with previous malignancies have increasingly been accepted for renal transplantation. However, post-transplant malignancy risk and survival rates of these patients are unknown. Our aim was to assess if previous malignancies pose an unnecessarily high risk of post-transplant malignant tumours and if the organs as a resource are too limited for investment in this patient group.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Kidney transplanted patients from January 1982 through December 2013 with or without a pre transplant cancer.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Simultaneous kidney+pancreas transplantation.
• Islet cell transplanted patients
• Undiagnosed malignancies at the time of transplantation
• Death within a week after transplantation
• First transplantation at another hospital