African-American Organ Transplant Recipients at risk for skin cancer

Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 09:01 in Health & Medicine

A new study from Drexel University College of Medicine suggests all organ transplant recipients, regardless of race, should receive routine, total-body screenings for skin cancer. Out of 259 nonwhite transplant recipients who were evaluated in the study, 19 skin cancer lesions were identified in 6 percent of the patients. The research was published Wednesday in […]

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