Table 14.1

History of Cancer among Deceased Donors, 1999 to 2008

Organ Type		Year of Transplant
Organ Type		1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Total	Deceased Donor Transplants	17,008	17,333	17,641	18,291	18,658	20,047	21,213	22,206	22,049	21,745
	# with Hx of Cancer	321	320	328	289	404	392	480	434	454	467
	% with Hx of Cancer	1.9%	1.8%	1.9%	1.6%	2.2%	2.0%	2.3%	2.0%	2.1%	2.1%
Heart-Lung	Deceased Donor Transplants	51	48	27	33	29	40	35	31	31	27
	# with Hx of Cancer	-	1	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	2
	% with Hx of Cancer	-	2.1%	3.7%	3.0%	3.4%	-	-	-	-	7.4%
Heart	Deceased Donor Transplants	2,188	2,199	2,202	2,155	2,057	2,015	2,125	2,192	2,209	2,163
	# with Hx of Cancer	39	43	30	28	36	27	40	26	27	31
	% with Hx of Cancer	1.8%	2.0%	1.4%	1.3%	1.8%	1.3%	1.9%	1.2%	1.2%	1.4%
Intestine	Deceased Donor Transplants	71	79	113	106	112	146	171	171	197	185
	# with Hx of Cancer	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	1	1
	% with Hx of Cancer	-	-	-	-	-	0.7%	-	0.6%	0.5%	0.5%
Kidney	Deceased Donor Transplants	8,043	8,124	8,233	8,539	8,667	9,357	9,913	10,659	10,588	10,551
	# with Hx of Cancer	168	154	169	147	196	195	222	209	233	232
	% with Hx of Cancer	2.1%	1.9%	2.1%	1.7%	2.3%	2.1%	2.2%	2.0%	2.2%	2.2%
Kidney-Pancreas	Deceased Donor Transplants	934	909	888	905	868	881	902	923	862	836
	# with Hx of Cancer	11	12	10	8	10	7	10	5	6	9
	% with Hx of Cancer	1.2%	1.3%	1.1%	0.9%	1.2%	0.8%	1.1%	0.5%	0.7%	1.1%
Liver	Deceased Donor Transplants	4,498	4,595	4,672	4,969	5,351	5,848	6,121	6,363	6,228	6,069
	# with Hx of Cancer	89	96	96	98	133	143	182	169	157	166
	% with Hx of Cancer	2.0%	2.1%	2.1%	2.0%	2.5%	2.4%	3.0%	2.7%	2.5%	2.7%
Lung	Deceased Donor Transplants	864	941	1,034	1,029	1,070	1,157	1,405	1,401	1,465	1,478
	# with Hx of Cancer	10	11	19	6	20	14	23	21	25	22
	% with Hx of Cancer	1.2%	1.2%	1.8%	0.6%	1.9%	1.2%	1.6%	1.5%	1.7%	1.5%
Pancreas	Deceased Donor Transplants	359	438	472	555	504	603	541	466	469	436
	# with Hx of Cancer	4	3	3	1	8	5	3	3	5	4
	% with Hx of Cancer	1.1%	0.7%	0.6%	0.2%	1.6%	0.8%	0.6%	0.6%	1.1%	0.9%

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 4, 2009.

(-) = None in category.

Multiple organ transplants are counted for each organ transplanted.

Squamous and basal cell skin cancer, as well as unknown and missing, are not counted as history of cancer.