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Liver transplant recipients have higher cancer risk
Published in Hematology Week, November 17th, 2008
A new Canadian study comparing cancer rates of liver transplant patients to those of the general population has found that transplant recipients face increased risks of developing cancer, especially non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and colorectal cancer. Risks were more pronounced during the first year of follow-up and among younger transplant recipients. These findings are published in the November issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal by John Wiley & Sons. The article is also available online at Wiley Interscience (www.interscience.wiley.com).
Transplantation, and the immunosuppressants which keep the body from rejecting the new organ, have been shown to increase a...
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