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Double Jeopardy: Lung Cancer After Cardiac Transplantation
Journal article   Peer reviewed

Double Jeopardy: Lung Cancer After Cardiac Transplantation

William M Johnson, Olafur Baldursson and Thomas J Gross
Chest, Vol.113(6), pp.1720-1723
06/1998
DOI: 10.1378/chest.113.6.1720
PMID: 9631821

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Abstract

Two heart transplant patients were referred on the same day for evaluation of new chest radiograph abnormalities. Each proved to have advanced stage bronchogenic carcinoma. Review of the recent medical literature reveals that the combination of profound immunosuppression and a heavy smoking history puts cardiac transplant recipients at increased risk for the development of aggressive lung cancers.
Immunosuppression heart transplant bronchogenic carcinoma

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