Program Report: Expanding the Deceased Donor Pool in Manitoba With an Age-Targeted Kidney Transplant Program.

Purpose Of Program: The ongoing shortage of organs for transplant combined with the highest prevalence of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) in Canada has resulted in long wait times for a deceased donor transplant in Manitoba. Therefore, the Transplant Manitoba Adult Kidney Program has ongoing quality improvement initiatives to expand the deceased donor pool. This clinical transplant protocol describes an age-targeted program intended to increase the use of transplants with a kidney donor profile index (KDPI) >85 by allocating them to suitable pre-consented recipients age ≥65 with low wait times.

Prognostic nomograms to predict oncological outcome of thyroid cancers.

Context: Thyroid cancers represent a conglomerate of diverse histological types with equally variable prognosis. There is no reliable prognostic model to predict the risks of relapse and death for different types of thyroid cancers.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to build prognostic nomograms to predict individualized risks of relapse and death of thyroid cancer within 10 years of diagnosis based on patients' prognostic factors.

The age factor in survival of a population cohort of well-differentiated thyroid cancer.

Well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma (WDTC) represents a group of thyroid cancers with excellent prognosis. Age, a well-recognized risk factor for WDTC, has been consistently included in various prognostic scoring systems. An age threshold of 45 years is currently used by the American Joint Cancer Committee-TNM staging system for the risk stratification of patients.