Efficacy of brachytherapy for prostate cancer in organ transplant patients

Outcomes in Transplant Patients Undergoing Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer

“…In nontransplanted immunosuppressed patients, this ratio was 1.5. 35 To our knowledge this is the largest study to focus on a series of previously transplanted patients with prostate cancer treated with brachytherapy. This is suggestive of the fact that the cancers that develop within the immunosuppressed patients are more aggressive, possibly because of decreased immune surveillance of tumor cells in these patients.…”