Increased Incidence of Malignancy in Chronic Renal Failure

Abstract

We have analysed the causes of death in a group of patients with chronic renal failure – serum creatinine more than 225 µmol/l (2.5 mg/100 ml) – and find that there is an increased incidence of malignancy when compared with the fatality rates for cancers in England and Wales (p < 0.0005). No patient in the series had received a transplant kidney or was therapeutically immunosuppressed for other reasons.