De novo breast cancer in patients with liver transplantation: University of Pittsburgh's experience and review of the literature
M.Tahir Oruc, Atilla Soran, Ashok K. Jain, John W. Wilson, John Fung – 6 January 2004 – De novo malignancies are one of the current problems in patients with organ transplantation. The incidence has been considered to be higher as a result of increases of oncogenic viruses in immunosuppressed organ recipients. Published reports have shown increased incidence of de novo tumors such as malignant lymphomas and cutaneous neoplasms but decreased incidence of breast cancer.