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Preexisting melanoma and hematological malignancies, prognosis, and timing to solid organ transplantation: A consensus expert opinion statement
- Source :
- American Journal of Transplantation. 21:475-483
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2021.
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Abstract
- Patients undergoing evaluation for solid organ transplantation (SOT) frequently have a history of malignancy. Only patients with treated cancer are considered for SOT but the benefits of transplantation need to be balanced against the risk of tumor recurrence, taking into consideration the potential effects of immunosuppression. Prior guidelines on timing to transplant in patients with a prior treated malignancy do not account for current staging, disease biology, or advances in cancer treatments. To update these recommendations, the American Society of Transplantation (AST) facilitated a consensus workshop to comprehensively review contemporary literature regarding cancer therapies, cancer stage specific prognosis, the kinetics of cancer recurrence, as well as the limited data on the effects of immunosuppression on cancer-specific outcomes. This document contains prognosis, treatment, and transplant recommendations for melanoma and hematological malignancies. Given the limited data regarding the risk of cancer recurrence in transplant recipients, the goal of the AST-sponsored conference and the consensus documents produced are to provide expert opinion recommendations that help in the evaluation of patients with a history of a pretransplant malignancy for transplant candidacy.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Consensus
medicine.medical_treatment
MEDLINE
Disease
030230 surgery
Malignancy
03 medical and health sciences
Patient safety
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Humans
Immunology and Allergy
Pharmacology (medical)
Intensive care medicine
Expert Testimony
Melanoma
Transplantation
business.industry
Cancer
Immunosuppression
Organ Transplantation
Prognosis
medicine.disease
Hematologic Neoplasms
Neoplasm Recurrence, Local
business
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Details
- ISSN :
- 16006135
- Volume :
- 21
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American Journal of Transplantation
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....18f94a083b931af6d6efacc958982b77