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ArticleKidney international reports2021

Congenital Anomalies of the Kidney and Urinary Tract and Adulthood risk of Urinary Tract Cancer.

Ronit Calderon-Margalit, Gil Efron, Oren Pleniceanu, Dorit Tzur, Michal Stern-Zimmer, Arnon Afek, Tomer Erlich, Estela Derazne, Jeremy D Kark, Lital Keinan-Boker and 2 more

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Article in Kidney international reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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12 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Ronit Calderon-MargalitHadassah-Hebrew University Braun School of Public Health, Jerusalem, Israel.
Gil EfronDepartment of Military Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem and the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Oren PleniceanuDepartment of Military Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem and the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Dorit TzurDepartment of Military Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem and the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Michal Stern-ZimmerSackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Arnon AfekSackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Tomer ErlichDepartment of Military Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem and the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Estela DerazneSackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Jeremy D KarkDepartment of Military Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem and the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Lital Keinan-BokerSchool of Public Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Gilad TwigDepartment of Military Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem and the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Asaf VivanteSackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem · ILIsrael Defense Forces Medical Corps · ILTel Aviv University · ILEdmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital · ILIsrael Ministry of Health · IL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionCongenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) are the most common kidney diseases in childhood. Alterations in genes governing nephrogenesis may cause CAKUT, and in some cases may contribute to development of urinary tract (UT) tumors later in life. We aimed to assess the association between CAKUT and UT cancer in adulthood.

methodsWe conducted a population-based historical cohort study encompassing 1,510,042 recruits to the Israeli army between 1967 and 1997. CAKUT exposure was determined by army medical coding of CAKUT in childhood. Incidence of UT cancer (kidney, ureter, or bladder) was available through record linkage with the Israeli Cancer Registry. Recruits were followed from the prerecruitment assessment until cancer diagnosis, death, or study termination, in 2012. Cox proportional hazards models were constructed to estimate the hazard ratios (HRs) for UT cancer in participants with vs. without CAKUT.

resultsDuring a mean follow-up of 30.4 years, 2959 participants (2573 men and 386 women) developed UT cancer. Men with CAKUT exhibited an increased risk of UT cancer compared with men without CAKUT, yielding an adjusted HR of 1.98 (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.03-3.82). Among women CAKUT was associated with a HR of 5.88 (95% CI 2.19-15.76). Notably, upon stratification according to age of cancer diagnosis, the association between CAKUT and UT cancer was statistically significant only before 45 years of age in women and only after 45 years of age in men.

conclusionCAKUT is associated with a significantly increased risk of UT cancer, although the incidence and absolute risk remained quite low.

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congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT)kidney cancerrenal cell carcinoma (RCC)

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