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. 2012 Jul 26;13:65. doi: 10.1186/1471-2369-13-65

Table 2.

Associations between ESRD and cancer risk

 
N
ESRD
OR (95%CI)
P value
    N %    
Controls
99,615
357
0.36
ref
--
Overall cancer
1,029,732
3582
0.35
1.02 (0.91, 1.14)
0.8
Specific cancer site:
 
 
 
 
 
 Tongue
4,007
18
0.45
1.32 (0.82, 2.13)
0.3
 Gum and other mouth
3,407
<11
<0.4
0.95 (0.50, 1.78)
0.9
 Esophagus
10,261
39
0.38
1.02 (0.73, 1.43)
0.9
 Stomach
20,106
118
0.59
1.45 (1.16, 1.81)
0.001*
 Small intestine
3,502
24
0.69
1.92 (1.27, 2.92)
0.002
 Colon
104,002
390
0.37
1.17 (1.00, 1.36)
0.05
 Rectum
33,086
91
0.28
0.82 (0.65, 1.04)
0.11
 Liver
9,034
63
0.70
1.53 (1.16, 2.01)
0.003
 Gallbladder
3,430
15
0.44
1.32 (0.78, 2.22)
0.3
 Other biliary
4,389
27
0.62
1.78 (1.20, 2.65)
0.004
 Pancreas
29,765
122
0.41
1.21 (0.98, 1.50)
0.07
 Larynx
7,431
33
0.44
1.15 (0.80, 1.66)
0.4
 Lung
161,687
661
0.41
1.17 (1.02, 1.34)
0.02
 Soft tissue (including heart)
4,202
<11
<0.4
0.56 (0.28, 1.12)
0.1
 Melanoma of skin
24,626
75
0.30
1.07 (0.82, 1.41)
0.6
 Other non-epithelial skin
3,585
17
0.47
1.58 (0.96, 2.59)
0.07
 Breast
122,315
339
0.28
1.11 (0.90, 1.38)
0.3
 Cervix
3,686
28
0.76
2.12 (1.39, 3.23)
<0.001*
 Uterine corpus
24,507
66
0.27
1.05 (0.77, 1.43)
0.8
 Ovary
14,683
40
0.27
1.07 (0.75, 1.54)
0.7
 Prostate
193,632
336
0.17
0.42 (0.35, 0.50)
<0.001*
 Bladder
55,559
218
0.39
1.20 (1.00, 1.44)
0.05
 Kidney and renal pelvis
22,999
185
0.80
2.31 (1.92, 2.78)
<0.001*
  Kidney
20,684
177
0.86
2.42 (2.01, 2.92)
<0.001*
  Renal pelvis
2,315
<11
<0.4
1.13 (0.56, 2.28)
0.7
 Thyroid
5,520
25
0.45
1.29 (0.85, 1.93)
0.2
 Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
50,513
120
0.24
0.77 (0.62, 0.96)
0.02
 Multiple myeloma
13,949
92
0.66
1.77 (1.40, 2.24)
<0.001*
 Acute myeloid leukemia
7,571
25
0.33
1.02 (0.67, 1.53)
0.9
 Chronic myeloid leukemia 3,271 18 0.55 1.74 (1.08, 2.80) 0.02

Abbreviations: ESRD end-stage renal disease, OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval.

Odds ratios are adjusted for age, race, sex and selection year. Cancers with less than 3000 cases are not shown.

* P-value is significant at Bonferroni p-value threshold of 0.002.