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Article: Multiple organ transplant ups skin cancer risk.(CUTANEOUS ONCOLOGY)
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- Skin & Allergy News
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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ORLANDO -- Patients who receive multiple solid organ transplants appear to be at significantly higher risk of developing cutaneous malignancy--specifically melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer--after their transplants, compared with patients who have had only one transplant.
A total of 6 (26%) of 23 patients who received two or more transplants reported having at least one posttransplant skin cancer, compared with 23 (8%) of 297 patients who had only one transplant. This difference between multiple and single organ transplant recipients was statistically significant, Dr. Murad Alam said at the annual meeting of the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery.
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