Warning: Organ transplant recipients have a very high risk of skin cancer

This discovery has caused a stir among the medical community as well as patients who have been and organ transplantation to prolong life.

Accordingly, this latest discovery was discovered by Dr. Christina Lee Chung, a Da Lieu professor from Drexel University in Philadelphia and a team of associates. New research indicates that people who receive organ transplants such as liver and kidney transplants are more likely to develop skin cancer than normal people.

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Experts said that the rate of this skin cancer depends very much on the time of use as well as the dose that the patient must take anti-rejection medication after transplantation.

To achieve this result, the team studied and analyzed medical record data of patients who had transplanted organs on a large scale and discovered 19 new types of skin cancer in a group of 15 patients including: 6 black patients, 5 Asians and 4 Hispanics. In particular, patients with black skin all have the most obvious skin cancer.

In particular, Asian and Hispanic people tend to have skin cancer because they have too much exposure to the sun plus side effects of anti-rejection drugs because before rejection after transplantation is the biggest cause of organ transplant failure. With the vigilance of the immune system, the body sees the strange organ as the "enemy" and seeks to "chase" it away.

To control this process, patients need to take anti-rejection medication. This means that the body's immune system is inhibited and disordered and more susceptible to other diseases such as hypertension, myocardial infarction; viral infections (cytomegalovirus - CMV), bacteria (tuberculosis), fungi (Candida albican); gastric ulcers, hypertrophy, tongue; diabetes; Cataract; osteoporosis, bone follicles; Polycythemia, myelosuppression and skin cancer.

Thus, it was discovered as a wake-up call for medical doctors as well as for organ transplant patients on comprehensive, safe, proper health care methods as well as skin care regimes. Safe willow to limit the side effects of anti-rejection drugs, but the biggest danger is skin cancer.

This research has just been published online on the JAMA Dermatology page.

Huynh Dung ( According to UPI)