Is there a Relation between cancer and Chronic Kidney Disease?
What is the connection between cancer and CKD?
Chronic Kidney Disease and cancer are connected in several ways. Cancer can lead not only to the development of CKD and ESRD—often indirectly, from multiple causes (chemotherapy, HSCT)—but also to the presence of CKD can be associated with cancer.
Although the overall incidence and prevalence of CKD among patients with cancer is still uncertain, there is growing evidence to suggest that the risk is high and still increasing. The risk for developing CKD varies depending on whether the cancer is solid or hematologic in nature, whether the patient underwent nephrectomy or HSCT, or whether nephrotoxic chemotherapy was administered.
