nine cases of malignancy after kidney transplantation

renal transplantation is considered one of the best long-term therapies for chronic renal failure, but unfortunately the incidence of malignancy significantly increases in renal transplant recipients. we analyzed nine cases of malignancy in 200 renal transplant recipients occurring in a 12-year follow-up in imam hospital of tehran university, tehran, iran. according to this study, the organ most commonly affected with malignancy in our series was the skin and the mean time of neoplasm occurrence after kidney transplantation was 2.9 years.