Association of chronic kidney disease with total and site-specific cancer incidence in participants of the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study.
Yoshihisa MiyamotoRyoko KatagiriTaiki YamajiMamami InoueAtsushi GotoMotoki IwasakiMitsuhiko NodaShoichiro TsuganeNorie SawadaPublished in: Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association (2022)
In this large prospective study, a low eGFR was not significantly associated with an increased risk of total cancer incidence in patients with CKD, which may be partly due to an underpowered sample size. This finding may be due to the many shared risk factors between CKD and cancer.