Thursday, August 29, 2013

Research Finds Cancerous Cells from Donor Kidney Linked to Recipient Skin Cancer

Previous research has shown that patients who receive kidney transplants have an increased risk of an invasive form of skin cancer. It is unclear if donor tissue contributes to cancer formation. In this issue of the iJournal of Clinical Investigation/i, Philippe Ratajczak and colleagues at INSERM demonstrate that donor tissue can lead to caner formation in transplant recipients. They examined tumor cells and transplant tissues from a small sample ...

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