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  1. 1. Cancer in organ transplant recipients

    Författare :Caroline Stenman; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; cancer; organ transplantation; skin cancer; heart transplantation; lung transplantation;

    Sammanfattning : Tens of thousands of transplantations are performed around the world each year. Organ transplant recipients (OTR) are obliged to receive life-long medical treatment with immunosuppressive drugs to ensure graft function. However, such medications entail an increased risk of developing a broad spectrum of malignancies, especially skin cancer. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Virtue Ethics, Bioethics, and the Ownership of Biological Material

    Författare :Barbro Björkman; Sven Ove Hansson; Brad Hooker; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Biological material; ownership; rights; organ; donation; property; commodification; kidney; virtue ethics; natural rights; transplantation; transplant; social organisation; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

    Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis is to show how some ideas in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics can be interpreted and used as a productive way to approach a number of pressing issues in bioethics. Articles I-II introduce, and endorse, a social constructivist perspective on rights (as opposed to the more traditional natural rights idea). LÄS MER

  4. 3. Ethical aspects of owning human biological material

    Författare :Barbro Björkman; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; biological material; ownership; rights; organ donation; property; commodification; kidney; virtue ethics; natural rights; transplantation; transplant; social organisation; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

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  5. 4. The percieved threat of the risk of graft rejection among organ transplant recipients

    Författare :Madeleine Nilsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Organ transplantation; graft rejection; adolescents; perceptions; psychometric evaluation; health related quality of life; coping;

    Sammanfattning : Transplantation is an established and successful treatment for critically ill patients. For many of the organ transplant recipients (OTR) it is the only option for survival. When OTRs are asked about what they fear the most, the most common answer is graft rejection. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Skin cancer in organ transplant recipients : histopathological and epidemiological studies

    Författare :Britta Krynitz; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Sammanfattning : Organ transplant recipients (OTRs) have an increased risk of developing a broad spectrum of cancer types, mainly skin cancer. Posttransplantation risk and incidence vary among the three major skin cancer types: cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), basal cell carcinoma (BCC), and cutaneous malignant melanoma (melanoma). LÄS MER