Journal article
Cancer Diagnoses After Living Kidney Donation
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Mortality records identify cancer as the leading cause of death among living kidney donors, but information on the burden of cancer outside death records is limited in this population.
METHODS: We examined a database wherein U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network identifiers for 4,650 living kidney donors in 1987 to 2007 were linked to administrative data of a U.S. private health insurer (2000-2007 claims) to identify …
Authors
Lentine KL; Vijayan A; Xiao H; Schnitzler MA; Davis CL; Garg AX; Axelrod D; Abbott KC; Brennan DC
Journal
Transplantation, Vol. 94, No. 2, pp. 139–144
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
July 27, 2012
DOI
10.1097/tp.0b013e318254757d
ISSN
0041-1337