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Changes to This Summary (06/22/2017)

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Description of the Evidence

The Immunosuppression after organ transplantation subsection was renamed from Immunosuppression.

Added text about a retrospective population-based cohort study of solid-organ transplant recipients in Ontario, Canada during a 20-year period that demonstrated that solid organ transplant recipients are at increased risk of cancer-specific death, regardless of age, sex, and organ transplanted; as outcomes of transplantation have improved, cancer mortality has increased from secondary cancers and is now the second most common cause of death after transplantation (cited Acuna et al. as reference 15).

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