Epidemiology and risk factors for kidney damage during chemotherapy

Epidemiology and risk factors for kidney damage during chemotherapy Cancer and kindey are closely related with 12 to 25% of cancer patients exhibiting chronic kidney disease. During cancer treatment, almost one third of the patients, whatever their baseline glomerular filtration rate will experience acute renal failure. Therefore, it is critical to precisely estimate renal functions, adapt drug dosage to glomerular filtration rate, and prevent chemotherapy induced renal toxicity. Renal failure is a condition that may be associated with alleviation of treatment with a risk for loss of chance for the patient.