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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Transplantation. 2017 Aug;101(8):1859–1866. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000001725

Table 2.

Seventy-three de novo malignancies diagnosed in 64 patients after liver transplantation for primary sclerosing cholangitis (excluding nonmelanoma skin cancer)

Organ N (%) Tumor type Time to cancer in years
Median(range)
Outcome
Skin (8.2%) 5 (6.8%) Melanoma 4.88 (4.16–13.8) All survived
Hematology (30.1%) 18 (24.7%) Lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD) 5.24 (0.19–30) 3 died of refractory/recurrent disease
6 were positive for EBV, 9 were negative and 3 were unknown
1 developed CNS lymphoma
2 (2.7%) Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) 13.25 (9.80–16.70) 2 died of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) on MDS
2 (2.7%) Hodgkin’s disease 5.34 (0.57–10.10) both died of cancer and complications
Solid-organ (63.0%) 11 (15.1%) Renal Cell Cancer 11.7 (3.54–26.7) All survived
11 (15.1%) Colorectal Cancer 6.17 (0.31–22.9) 9 colon cancer and 2 rectal cancer
5 died of metastatic disease
7 (9.6%) Prostate adenocarcinoma 6.24 (1.93–22.5) All survived
5 (6.8%) Pancreatic adenocarcinoma 7.72 (5.22–10.0) 5 died of metastatic disease
5 (6.8%) Breast Cancer 3.93 (2.12–12.8) 4/5 survived (1 who died from Hodgkin’s disease)
4 (5.5%) Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (de novo) 18.05 (5.17–28.5) All had Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy anastomosis
PSC recurred in all patients
All died of metastatic disease
1 (1.4%) Ovarian Cancer 22.4 died of metastatic disease
1 (1.4%) Endometrial Cancer 5.65 died of metastatic disease
1 (1.4%) Vulvar Cancer 22.1 survived