Posts Tagged ‘organ transplant’
Skin Cancer and Organ Transplants: Is There A Connection? (For Professionals)
Sunday, August 14th, 2011Skin Cancer and Organ Transplants: Is There A Connection? (For Professionals) Everyone has probably heard something about skin cancer and organ transplantation, but do these two separate entities have a connection with each other? To find out whether indeed, one has a possibility of getting skin cancer when one has undergone organ transplantation, let us […]
Skin Cancer After Organ Transplant (For Professionals)
Saturday, October 16th, 2010Skin Cancer After Organ Transplant (For Professionals) Receiving a kidney or heart transplant nowadays means that survival of 20-30 years survival is quite possible. Organ rejection is no longer a major issue. But this comes at the price of: infections malignancies Example SCC (Squamous Cell Carcinoma) risk is 200 times than in non transplanted individuals. […]
