The importance of skin cancer prevention in organ transplant patients an editorial to paper by Salgo: 'Switch to Sirolimus in long-term renal transplant recipients: Reduced premalignancies and nonmelanoma skin cancer in a controlled, prospective, randomized, blinded study'

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1343-1344

  Mitchell, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EVEROLIMUS; FLUOROURACIL; IMIQUIMOD; RAPAMYCIN; RETINOID;

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; APHTHOUS ULCER; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER PREVENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDEMA; EDITORIAL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KAPOSI SARCOMA; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MELANOMA; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PNEUMONIA; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; SIROLIMUS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77952924251     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2010.03133.x     Document Type: Editorial

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