Results Five themes were identified: invisibility of cancer (unspoken stigma, ambiguity of
risk, and absence of symptomatic prompting); prioritizing kidney disease (preserving the
chance of transplantation, over-riding attention to kidney disease, protecting graft survival,
and showing loyalty to the donor); preventing the crisis of cancer (evading severe
consequences and cognizant of susceptibility); cognitive resistance (reluctance to perform a
repulsive procedure, intensifying disease burden threshold, anxiety of a positive test, and …