Occurrence of double primary malignancies in an African renal transplant recipient

oleh: Pavithra Mohan, Anand Yuvaraj, Georgi Abraham, Abraham Kurien, Anila Abraham, Milly Mathew, S Saravanan, Sanjeev Nair

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2016-01-01

Deskripsi

A 63-year-old African male with end stage renal disease who received a renal transplantation from his daughter after successful treatment of hepatitis C virus, type 1 genotype developed metastatic Kaposi′s sarcoma and subsequently adenocarcinoma of the prostate. He was successfully treated with chemotherapy and reduction of immunosuppression and switch over to rapamycin.