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In contrast to patients with normal immune system, tumors can be transmitted to organ transplant recipients due to their immunosuppressive therapy. But in the pioneering years of transplantion, this possibility was regarded as being without foundation. Thus, in the first historic years of transplantation, donors with cancer were accepted for organ donation.
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Lefrançois, N., Marrast, A.C., Garnier, JL., Dubernard, JM., Touraine, JL. (1996). Malignancies transmitted with the transplant. In: Touraine, J.L., Traeger, J., Bétuel, H., Dubernard, J.M., Revillard, J.P., Dupuy, C. (eds) Cancer in Transplantation: Prevention and Treatment. Transplantation and Clinical Immunology, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0175-9_4
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