Interestingly enough, NIH did a press release last month on its study that the cancer risk is high for recipients.
[quote]Organ transplant recipients in the United States have a high risk of developing 32 different types of cancer, according to a new study of transplant recipients which fully describes the range of malignancies that occur. Researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and their colleagues evaluated medical data from more than 175,700 transplant recipients, accounting for about 40 percent of all organ transplant recipients in the country. The results of this study appeared in the Nov. 2, 2011, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association....The researchers also found that the most common cancers among transplant recipients were non-Hodgkin lymphoma (14.1 percent of all cancers in transplant recipients), lung cancer (12.6 percent), liver cancer (8.7 percent), and kidney cancer (7.1 percent).[/quote]
NIH: Cancer after organ donation
Does not indicate whether they checked to see if the donated organs came from any cancer survivors.
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