Source: Healio News
Patients with newly diagnosed cancer were more likely to develop kidney failure than a group of controls without cancer who exhibited similar characteristics in terms of age, sex, eGFR and the presence of diabetes or hypertension.
Findings from the retrospective population-based study, which matched each patient with cancer to two controls, further revealed that multiple myeloma conferred the greatest risk.
“Previous studies have shown an increased cancer risk within the dialysis and kidney transplant populations compared to the general population. However, it is unclear whether cancer