title: Transitional cell carcinoma in renal transplant recipients.
abstract: Renal transplantation (RTx) recipients have a high incidence of cancer, including transitional cell carcinoma (TCC). Posttransplantation urologic malignancies still present a challenge for transplant surgeons. Using the Dialysis and Transplant Registry of Taichung Veterans General Hospital, a total of 55 cancers were diagnosed in 52 RTx recipients between May 1983 and September 2001. Of these, 24 RTx recipients developing TCC were identified and presented the distinctly high percentage (43.6%) of TCC that were malignancies after RTx in Taiwan. The mean time between transplantation and initial diagnosis was 46 months in our series. Painless hematuria with pyuria is the most common mode of presentation. Transitional cell carcinoma of RTx recipients had multiple foci. Moreover, synchronous TCC in bilateral upper urinary tracts were confirmed in 9 (41%) recipients. The pathologic status of disease is invasive at diagnosis (pTa: 2, pT1: 7, pT2: 4, pT3: 6, pT4: 2, graft metastasis: 1 and distant metastasis: 2). Disseminated metastasis occurred in 6 recipients, all of whom died of their disease within 16 months. Five recipients received adjuvant chemotherapy and retained stable renal function. We conclude that RTx recipients have a markedly increased incidence of TCC in Taiwan, and that prophylactic bilateral nephroureterectomy of native kidneys with bladder cuff excision can be performed simultaneously in RTx recipients with TCC.
authors.affiliation: Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, 160, Section 3, Chung-Kung Road, 407 Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yu-Lin
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Kao
authors.forename: Yen-Chuan
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Ou
authors.forename: Chi-Rei
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Hao-Chung
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: Chung-Kuang
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Kuo-Hsiung
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Shu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002295:Carcinoma, Transitional Cell / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000276:immunology / Q000401:mortality; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014571:Urologic Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery