New study finds that lung cancer risk was increased after lung transplantation, particularly in the native (non-transplanted) lung of single lung transplant recipients. The findings of the study are published in the journal iAmerican Journal of Transplantation/i.
This was a large registry-linkage study that utilized matched transplant and cancer registry data from 17 US states/regions, including approximately 50 percent of US transplant recipients from 1987-2012.
Researchers found that ...
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