Cancers complicating organ transplantation

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 323, Issue 25, 1990, Pages 1767-1769

  Penn, Israel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OKT 3;

EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 0025632892     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199012203232510     Document Type: Editorial

References (9)

1. Penn I, Hammond W, Brettschneider L, Starzl TE. Malignant lymphomas in transplantation patients. Transplant Proc 1969; 1: 106–12.
2. Penn I. Why do immunosuppressed patients develop cancer. Crit Rev Oncogenesis 1989; 1: 27–52.
3. Penn. The changing patterns of posttransplant malignancies. Transplant Proc (in press).
4. Hanto DW, Frizzera G, Gajl-Peczalska KJ, et al. Epstein–Barr virus-induced B-cell lymphoma after renal transplantation: acyclovir therapy and transition from polyclonal to monoclonal B-cell proliferation. N Engl J Med 1982; 306: 913–8.
5. Nalesnik MA, Makowka L, Starzl TE. The diagnosis and treatment of posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorders. Curr Probl Surg 1988; 25: 365–472.
6. Swinnen LJ, Costanzo-Nordin MR, Fisher SG, et al. Increased incidence of lymphoproliferative disorder after immunosuppression with the monoclonal antibody OKT3 in cardiac-transplant recipients. N Engl J Med 1990; 323: 1723–8.
7. Kersey JH, Shapiro RS, Heinitz KJ, et al. Lymphoid malignancy in naturally occurring and post bone marrow transplantation immunodeficiency diseases. In: Good RA, Lindenlaub E, eds. The nature, cellular, and biochemical basis and management of immunodeficiencies: symposium Bernried, West Germany, 21st-25th September, 1986. Vol. 21 of Symposia medica Hoechst. Stuttgart, Germany: F.K. Schattauer Verlag. 1987:289–94.
8. Filipovich AH, Zerbe D, Spector BD, Kersey JH. Lymphomas in persons with naturally occurring immunodeficiency disorders. In: Magrath I, O'Conor GT, Ramot B, eds. Pathogenesis of leukemias and lymphomas: environmental influences. Vol. 27 of Progress in cancer research and therapy. New York: Raven Press, 1984:225–34.
9. Selik RM, Starcher ET, Curran JW. Opportunistic diseases reported in AIDS patients: frequencies, associations, and trends. AIDS 1987; 1: 175–82.