Mohammad Davoodi
1, Sara Bahadoram
2, Mohammad Bahadoram
3, Maedeh Barahman
4, Zaher Khazaei
5, Masoud Amiri
6,7*1 Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
2 Department of Pediatrics, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3 Medical Student Research Committee and Social Determinant of Health Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
4 Department of Radiation Oncology, Firoozgar Hospital, Firoozgar Clinical Research Development Center (FCRDC), Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Tehran, Iran
5 Epidemiology, Department of Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Dezful University of Medical Sciences, Dezful, Iran
6 Social Determinants of Health Research Center and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran
7 Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Abstract
Important declines have been observed in urological cancer-related mortality in recent
decades, mainly due to improvements in treatments of prostate cancer, less exposure to
tobacco smoking as well as occupational carcinogens of kidney and bladder. However,
because of global population ageing, age-related urinary tract cancers are expected to increase
in the near future despite improved primary prevention, early detection and more efficient
treatment. In this article, renal cell carcinoma (RCC), kidney transplantation, cancer and
acute kidney injury (AKI), lung cancer and chronic kidney disease (CKD), breast cancer,
prostate cancer, cervix cancer and brain cancer and their associations with kidney function
and structure have been discussed. In conclusion, kidney and cancers have interaction with
each other. Kidney carcinoma can be metastasizing to other organs as well as other cancer to
kidney. Therefore, it is recommended to consider the potential effect of kidney functions and
interaction with other cancers in each malignancy.
Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education:
According to global population ageing, age-related urinary tract cancers are expected to increase in the near future despite
improved primary prevention, early detection and more efficient treatment.
Please cite this paper as: Davoodi M, Bahadoram S, Bahadoram M, Barahman M, Khazaei Z, Amiri M. Impact of cancers on
the kidney function and structure; an ignored entity. J Renal Inj Prev. 2018;7(3):112-115. doi: 10.15171/jrip.2018.26.