Abstract:e13507 Background: In 2016, 33,610 organ transplants were performed in the US. Nevertheless, there is a critical deficiency of available organs. Currently, malignant neoplasms in the donor preclude organ donation, with some exceptions, such as certain CNS tumors without metastatic disease. The literature illustrates the risk of CNS tumor transmission with organ transplantation as 0-3% in the absence of additional risk factors, but organs from fewer than 0.5% of the 13,000 patients that die of glioma annually … Show more
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