Transplant Living: Organ Donation and Transplantation Information for Patients


Medications Post-Transplant Medications Types of Immunosuppressants Switching Immunosuppressants Side Effects Other Medications Generic and Brand Name Drugs Helpful Hints Questions to Ask Pregnancy Precautions Fertility Labor and Delivery Breastfeeding Risks National Registry Staying Healthy Post-Transplant Tests Preventing Rejection Infections & Immunity Health Concerns Diet and Exercise Contacting Your Donor Family Cancer Types Risk factors Prevention and early detection Post-transplant cancer mortality		After the Transplant Cancer Cancer is more common in transplant patients than the general population. Research has shown that it is likely for patients who live for at least 10 years after a transplant to develop some type of cancer, including skin cancer. For more information, choose a topic below: Types of cancer associated with transplant recipients Risk factors Prevention and early detection Post-transplant cancer mortality Reference and Publication Information United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is committed to providing accurate and reliable information for transplant patients. The content on this page was originally created on May 5, 2006 by UNOS and last modified on June 30, 2006. The following sources were used as references: Kauffman, H. Myron, Cherikh, Wida S., McBride, Maureen A., Cheng, Yulin, Hanto, Douglas W. Post-Transplant De Novo Malignancies in Renal Transplant Recipients: The Past and Present. Transplantation International 2006. Transplantation 70:1747-51, 2000. First Report of the United Network for Organ Sharing Transplant Tumor Registry: Donors with a History of Cancer. This Web site is intended solely for the purpose of electronically providing the public with general health-related information and convenient access to the data resources. UNOS is not affiliated with any one product nor does UNOS assume responsibility for any error, omissions or other discrepancies.		Currently, there are thousands more people waiting for a lifesaving transplant than there are organs being donated. To discover the simple things you can do to help promote organ donation, visit the Coalition on Donation's Web site at www.donatelife.net.

After the Transplant

Cancer