Skin cancer in skin of color transplant patients

Objectives: 1. Use UNOS/OPTN to establish a cohort of HFHS patients who received heart, lung, liver, pancreas or kidney organ transplants between January 1, 1990 and December 31, 2011 2. Explore racial differences in histologically-confirmed skin cancer for OTRs: calculate the incidence of skin cancer by race; calculate the cumulative incidence of skin cancer in the cohort using person-years at risk; compare, by race, the rates of skin cancer for OTRs in our cohort to that of the general population to determine if the difference in rates observed by race in the general population is similar to the difference in rates by race among OTRs.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology - Category: Dermatology Source Type: research