Journal article
Survival after cutaneous melanoma in kidney transplant recipients: A population-based matched cohort study
CM Vajdic, AH Chong, PJ Kelly, NS Meagher, MT Van Leeuwen, AE Grulich, AC Webster
American Journal of Transplantation | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Published : 2014
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.12716
Abstract
Transplant recipients are at elevated risk of melanoma and may have poorer outcomes than nontransplant recipients. We conducted a national, population-based, matched cohort study of Australian kidney transplant recipients and randomly selected members of the general population matched for age, sex, state and year of diagnosis with invasive cutaneous melanoma (1982-2003). Melanoma histopathological characteristics were extracted from cancer registry notifications and death data were obtained from the National Death Index (1982-2011). Histopathology was compared using conditional logistic regression and overall survival analyzed using Cox proportional hazard models. Compared to melanomas in no..
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Awarded by Australian National Health and Medical Research Council
Awarded by Cancer Institute New South Wales
Funding Acknowledgements
Supported by a grant from Epiderm, a not-for-profit dermatological research foundation, and fellowships from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (ID1012141, ID568819, ID1023159) and the Cancer Institute New South Wales (ID10/CDF/2-42). The funding bodies played no role in the study design or conduct, data collection, analysis or interpretation of data, in the writing of the article or the decision to submit the article for publication. We thank the staff of the Australian kidney transplant units; the state and territory cancer registries including the NSW Department of Health and the NSW Central Cancer Registry for the use of their data, and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for conducting the data linkage.