People who have had kidney transplants face a big increase in risk for a variety of cancers, particularly those caused by a virus, according to a study published on Tuesday.The researchers, writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, tracked cancer incidence from 1982 to 2003 in nearly 29,000 Australians who got kidney transplants after serious kidney disease.
They excluded nonmelanoma skin cancer and cancers already known to lead to end-stage kidney disease, and found that the patients experienced an overall cancer risk nearly 3.3 times higher after getting a kidney transplant than before.
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