A recently released study has reported that organ transplant recipients in the United States have a high risk of being diagnosed with approximately 30 types of cancer. Researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), which is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
In this study, researchers analyzed approximately 175,000 transplant recipients. This was about 40% of total organ transplants in the country for the year. The results of this study was released in the November 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). continue reading…