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Nature Medicine  9, 506 - 507 (2003)
Published online: 7 April 2003; | doi:10.1038/nm865

Transplanting cancer: donor-cell transmission of Kaposi sarcoma

Patrick S. Moore

University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA psm9+@pitt.edu

Transplantation carries the risk of Kaposi sarcoma, which afflicts 1 out of 200 transplant recipients in the United States. An analysis of human post-transplant tumors indicates that the disease can originate from donor cells, highlighting the need for organ pre-screening.

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