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Table 3 Associations between ESRD and prostate cancer, by stage at cancer diagnosis and PSA screening

From: Cancer risk among elderly persons with end-stage renal disease: a population-based case–control study

Prostate cancer outcome

Number of cases

Association with ESRD, odds ratio (95% CI)

  

Overall

PSA in 1 year before diagnosis/selection

No PSA in 1 year before diagnosis/selection

All cancers

193,632

0.42 (0.35, 0.50)

0.52 (0.39, 0.71)

0.52 (0.42, 0.66)

By stage

    

 Localized/regional

136,904

0.34 (0.28, 0.41)

0.45 (0.33, 0.62)

0.42 (0.31, 0.55)

 Distant/metastic

8,333

0.89 (0.62, 1.26)

0.98 (0.54, 1.79)

0.95 (0.61, 1.48)

 Unstaged

8,302

0.84 (0.58, 1.22)

1.12 (0.66, 1.89)

0.91 (0.50, 1.66)

  1. Abbreviations: ESRD end-stage renal disease, CI confidence interval, PSA prostate specific antigen test.