Devastating fast-growing lung cancer after single lung transplantation

2017

JOURNAL OF THORACIC DISEASE

Devastating fast-growing lung cancer after single lung transplantation

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Gherzi L., Carillo C., Diso D., Mantovani S., de Giacomo T., Venuta F., Anile M.

DOI: 10.21037/jtd.2017.11.57

ISSN: 2072-1439

Patients receiving lung transplantation are at increasing risk for the development of cancer due to the administration of immunosuppressive drugs. We hereby report the case of a patient with a devastating fast-growing lung cancer after single lung transplantation for pulmonary fibrosis.