Heart transplant patients have higher risk of skin cancer

Friday 5 August 2011

According to research in the American Journal of Transplantation, heart transplant patients are up to 30 times more likely to develop skin cancer than healthy people.

>> http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/30/news/la-heb-heart-transplant-skin-cancer-06302011


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