People with Kidney Transplant at Increased Risk of Cancer

Kidney transplant is truly one of the miracles of modern medicine. It can help people recover normal renal function and live a high-quality life , but it also renders people at high risk of certain kinds of cancer. It is reported that people who received Kidney transplant are at twice as much risk of developing cancer than the general population. Therefore, people should be monitored closely and use preventive measure to protect against cancer.

The high risk of cancer is due to the need to take a large of immunosuppressive drugs to prevent organ rejection. The immunosuppressive drugs not only suppresses the rejection, but also weaken normal immune system. Additionally, the cancer risk in Kidney transplant is driven by many factors that are known at the time of transplant such as age and smoking and alcohol history, etc.
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