CATIE news story
People with HIV are increasingly being accepted for organ transplantation.
Researchers across Spain pooled health-related information collected from people with and without HIV who received a transplanted liver between 2002 and 2012 and who received continued monitoring to 2016. Researchers focused on the risk for new cases of cancer in this population.
Overall, they found that the risk of new tumours developing after transplantation was similar in people with and without HIV.
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Source : CATIE
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