Organ transplant recipients face increased risk of BCC

Recipients of a solid organ transplant face up to a sixfold increase in the risk of developing a basal cell carcinoma – a risk that seems to increase as time passes. A pretransplant history of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) increased this risk to 55 times that seen in the general population, Dr....
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