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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 28.
Published in final edited form as: Transplantation. 2012 Jul 27;94(2):139–144. doi: 10.1097/TP.0b013e318254757d

Table 2.

Rates of cancer diagnoses among prior living kidney donors and age- and sex-matched non-donor controls

Living Donors
Rate Per 1000
Person-Years
Matched Controls
Rate Per 1000
Person-Years
Donor vs Control
Rate Ratio (95% CI)

All LKD

Total Non-skin 11.9 16.2 0.74 (0.55–0.99)*
Total Skin 6.1 6.8 0.91 (0.59–1.40)

By Type, Both Sexes

Melanoma 1.6 0.9 1.67 (0.61–4.59)
Colon 0.3 1.4 0.22 (0.05–1.03)
Lung 0.8 0.9 0.83 (0.25–2.73)
Kidney 0.3 0.9 0.33 (0.07–1.65)
Lymphoma 0.6 1.6 0.40 (0.13–1.28)
Hodgkin’s -- 0.6 --
Leukemia 0.3 0.3 1.00 (0.14–7.10)
Myeloma 0.2 0.5 0.33 (0.03–3.20)
Central nervous system 0.6 0.2 4.00 (0.45–35.8)
Endocrine 0.5 0.5 1.00 (0.20–4.95)
Bone 0.3 0.2 2.00 (0.18–22.1)
Mouth 0.2 0.3 0.50 (0.05–5.51)
Hepatobiliary -- 0.5 --
Esophagus -- 0.2 --
Stomach -- 0.2 --
Bladder -- 0.2 --
Other 0.6 0.6 1.00 (0.25–4.00)

Male-specific

Prostate 6.5 1.7 3.80 (1.42–10.2)*
Testes 0.3 2.4 0.14 (0.02–1.16)

Female-specific

Breast 5.2 8.7 0.60 (0.33–1.08)
Ovary 1.2 -- --
Uterus 1.2 1.2 1.00 (0.25–4.00)

CNS, central nervous system

*

P<0.05