Upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma behaviors in patients with end-stage renal disease after kidney transplantation in Taiwan.

Purpose: To determine upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma (UT-UC) behavior in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) after kidney transplantation (KT).

Methods: From 2005 to 2012, 117 ESRD patients with localized UT-UC underwent nephroureterectomy at our institution. We divide these patients into two groups according to having had KT or not.

Chronic kidney disease as an important risk factor for tumor recurrences, progression and overall survival in primary non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

Purpose: To evaluate the impact of chronic kidney disease (CKD) on oncologic outcomes among non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) patients who underwent transurethral resection of bladder cancer.

Methods: We followed up the medical data of 158 newly diagnosed NMIBC patients enrolled in this study for more than 4 years. The ten putative risk factors included patient age, gender, white blood cells, neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio, tumor count, size, grade, stage, CKD (estimated glomerular filtration rate, eGFR < 60) and histological differentiation.