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Purpose: Patients with limited life expectancy are at risk for overtreatment of T1a kidney cancer. We sought to determine patterns of treatment for T1a kidney cancer in a nationally representative sample of patients with life expectancy less than 10 and less than 5 years.Daskivich, Timothy J....
Using the comprehensive French national health insurance database, we emulated a target trial to explore the causal impacts of primary vs interval cytoreductive surgery on stage IV ovarian cancer prognosis (Surgery for Ovarian cancer FIGO 4: SOFI-4). The clone method with inverse probability of cen...
The incidence and prevalence of CKD and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) increases with age, and results in a considerable social and economic burden as progression to ESKD is associated with a higher number of comorbid conditions, shorter life expectancy, and increased treatment costs. Although ...
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Cancer risk was found to be significantly higher among Chinese dialysis patients, followed by Malays, compared to the general population. The 3 sites with highest elevated cancer risks among dialysis patients compared to the general population are kidney, tongue and multiple myeloma. The finding of ...
The rise in life expectancy worldwide has resulted in a greater incidence of cancer cases among older adults. Based on available epidemiological data4,5 over 60–70% of individuals with lung cancer are aged 65 or older, and approximately 30–40% of new lung cancer cases are detected in ...
Global deaths attributable to kidney diseases have been estimated to range between 4 and 10 million [8]. CKD is now projected to become the 5th most common cause of years of life lost by 2040 [14]. The burden of acute kidney injury (AKI) is not known as it is harder to measure, ...
[4] S. Peters, C. Bexelius, V. Munk, N. Leighl The impact of brain metastasis on quality of life, resource utilization and survival in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer Cancer Treat. Rev., 45 (2016), pp. 139-162, 10.1016/j.ctrv.2016.03.009 View PDFView articleView in Sco...
Methods: We examined comorbidity among 14 096 patients with breast, colon, rectal, liver, stomach, ovarian, uterine, bladder or kidney cancer. Patients were identified from cancer registry data, and then linked to hospitalisation data to determine the presence of comorbidity in the 5 years ...