Daunting but Worthy Goal: Reducing the De Novo Cancer Incidence After Transplantation

Transplantation. 2016 Dec;100(12):2569-2583. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000001428.

Abstract

Solid-organ transplant recipients are at increased risk of developing de novo malignancies compared with the general population, and malignancies become a major limitation in achieving optimal outcomes. The prevention and the management of posttransplant malignancies must be considered as a main goal in our transplant programs. For these patients, immunosuppression plays a major role in oncogenesis by both impairement of immunosurveillance, enhancement of chronic viral infection, and by direct prooncogenic effects. It is essential to manage the recipient with a long-term adapted screening program beginning before transplantation to use a prophylaxis to decrease infection-related cancer, to propose a viral monitoring, and to modulate the immunosuppression toward lower doses especially for calcineurin inhibitors. Indeed, strategies to induce tolerance or to allow a dramatic reduction of the immunosuppression burden are the more promising approaches for the reduction of the posttransplant malignancies.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Calcineurin Inhibitors / therapeutic use
  • Carcinogenesis
  • Graft Survival
  • Humans
  • Immunosuppression Therapy
  • Immunosuppressive Agents / therapeutic use
  • Incidence
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / immunology
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / surgery*
  • Kidney Neoplasms / immunology
  • Kidney Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Mass Screening / methods
  • Mice
  • Monitoring, Immunologic / methods*
  • Neoplasms / epidemiology*
  • Neoplasms / etiology*
  • Postoperative Complications
  • Prognosis
  • Risk Factors
  • Transplantation / adverse effects*
  • Transplantation Tolerance

Substances

  • Calcineurin Inhibitors
  • Immunosuppressive Agents