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The Importance of Skin Cancer Prevention in Organ Transplant Patients
An Editorial to Paper by Salgo: ‘Switch to Sirolimus in Long‐Term Renal Transplant Recipients: Reduced Premalignancies and Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer in a Controlled, Prospective, Randomized, Blinded Study’
Author(s) -
Mitchell C.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
american journal of transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1600-6143
pISSN - 1600-6135
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2010.03133.x
Subject(s) - medicine , skin cancer , sirolimus , everolimus , immunosuppression , transplantation , cancer , organ transplantation , oncology , surgery , urology
Renal transplant patients should be managed by dermatologists to prevent and manage skin cancer, a common cause of morbidity and mortality in organ transplant patients.
See article by Salgo et al on page 1385.