## Abstract Iatrogenic immunosuppression is a unique setting for investigating immune‐related mechanisms of carcinogenesis. Solid organ transplant recipients have a 3‐fold excess risk of cancer relative to the age‐ and sex‐matched general population. Population‐based studies utilizing cancer regist
Incidence and risk factors for cancer after liver transplantation
✍ Scribed by Gonzalo Hernández Vallejo; Carlos Jiménez Romero; Juan Carlos de Vicente
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 230 KB
- Volume
- 56
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1040-8428
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