Organ transplant candidates with prostate cancer diagnosis may not need to delay transplantation

Immunosuppressive medications – drugs given to organ transplant recipients so their bodies won’t reject the donor organ — could weaken the immune system’s ability to find and destroy cancer or fight infections that contribute to cancer. As a general rule, candidates for solid organ transplant who are newly diagnosed with any type of cancer must be treated — and be without a recurrence for a period of time —in order to become eligible for transplant. Post-transplant patients with a cancer diagnosis may also potentially require more aggressive treatment and surveillance.

In a paper published in the Stanley Liauw, MD, an author on the paper.

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