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Background: End-stage kidney disease is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality, a feature that is shared with malignant neoplasms. Hence, patients with the cumulative effect of these two diseases frequently give rise to the question of whether dialysis should be implemented. The primary goal of this study was to characterize the clini...
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... study was conducted into 141 consecutive patients with a diagnosis of ESKD and cancer, which in most cases was locally advanced or metastatic, that underwent CHD between 1991 and 2014 at our dialysis centre. Figure 1 illustrates the main causes of kidney disease, which included, as most frequent, multiple myeloma (MM) (35; 24.8%) and chronic interstitial nephritis (34; 24.1%), followed by surgical removal of kidney (29; 20.6%). Table 1 shows demographic and clinical character- istics of the patients, stratified by tumour type. ...
