Liver transplant recipients are not at increased risk for nonlymphoid solid organ tumors

✍ Scribed by Dympna M. Kelly; Sukru Emre; Stephen R. Guy; Charles M. Miller; Myron E. Schwartz; Patricia A. Sheiner

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 75 KB
• Volume: 83
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19980915)83:6<1237::aid-cncr25>3.0.co;2-5

✦ Synopsis

BACKGROUND.

Organ transplant recipients are at higher risk for developing lymphoid tumors, skin carcinomas, and sarcomas. Whether liver transplant recipients are at higher risk for developing more common cancers is unclear.