De novo malignant tumours in renal transplant recipients.
Malignant tumours developed in 8 of the 209 patients who received renal transplants at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, between October 1967 and December 1979. One of these patients developed disseminated carcinoma of the breast, a disease which had been present in the donor. He was therefore excluded from the study. At 3,4% the incidence of de novo malignant tumours in transplant recipients is half that previously reported in South Africa. No case of reticulum cell sarcoma or intracranial lymphoma was found.
D000328:Adult; D001650:Bile Duct Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000209:etiology; D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000209:etiology; D002285:Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating / Q000209:etiology; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012514:Sarcoma, Kaposi / Q000209:etiology; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology