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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Renal Cell Carcinoma Prevalence Higher in Dialysis Patients than in the General Population.

A recent study found that the prevalence of renal cell carcinoma was 0.5% during the past decade in adult patients with kidney failure. The annual incidence ranged from 0.3% to 0.8%. Most cancer cases were low grade and nearly 30% of them were detected incidentally by CT scans for unrelated reasons. The average time from dialysis initiation to cancer diagnosis was 3.4 years. The study of 6827 patients undergoing dialysis between 1999 and 2008 was presented at the 33rd Annual Dialysis Conference and its findings werereported by Renal & Urology News.

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