Organ Transplant Might Cause Cancer
With the great medical innovations happening the past decades, it is now possible to transplant organs such as heart, intestine, kidney, liver, lung, and pancreas. But did you know that undergoing organ transplant would actually give you a higher risk of cancer? One can get skin cancer because of the immune suppressing drugs that people who underwent organ transplant takes. The risk for lymphoma is higher during the first year after the organ transplant as it is this stage that the immune system is most suppressed. Doctors should match carefully and closely the donors to its recipient as to reduce the risk for certain cancers and transplant rejection.
Source: http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v89/n7/full/6601219a.html
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