[ConservativeMind]

I had no idea the risk was so incredibly high, nor that our bodies normally dispense so easily with potential skin cancers.

Please get checked often, if you are a transplant recipient.

[ConservativeMind]

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[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Look up Xeroderma Pigmentosum.

And say a little prayer for the kids born with it.

[moovova]

We’re the donors jabbees?

[tinamina]

I took my sister twice last week to the dermatologist to get skin cancers biopsied, cut off and frozen. Extremely painful for her to have these so often. They are fast growing and they are extremely numerous. They mainly grow on her feet and her hands. She has never had one on her face but she did have one on the bottom of her foot which needed a skin graft a few years ago.
She has been a kidney transplant patient for 32 years and has been on prednisone for all that time. She had the same doctors in South Carolina all those years until recently moving to Florida when they lowered the dose. After 32 years. But the skin cancers are there and they are pervasive and very painful.

[telescope115]

THANK YOU for posting this!
I just visited my doctor today with skin issues. He removed one growth on my scalp for biopsy, leaving 3 others for now (one on my back).
I had transplant surgery last year, and I had been wondering about long term effects of my meds. He even said that my Tacrolimus could cause skin problems.
Now I’m waiting for the results of the biopsy, and I will be very observant of what is going on with my skin…
A little knowledge can be very informative.

[higgmeister]

What is a solid organ transplant versus an organ transplant?