Comparison of All-Cause Mortality Between Canadian Kidney Transplant Recipients and Patients With Cancer: A Population-Based Cohort Study

BACKGROUND: Understanding rates of mortality in kidney transplant recipients relative to other common diseases can enhance our understanding of the mortality burden in kidney transplant recipients. OBJECTIVE: To compare the survival probability in Canadian female and male kidney transplant recipients with patients with common cancers (female: breast, colorectal, lung, or pancreas; male: prostate, colorectal, lung, or pancreas) in a contemporary …