Clinicopathological features, MCPyV status and outcomes of Merkel cell carcinoma in solid-organ transplant recipients: a retrospective, multicentre cohort study.

Although we noticed a trend towards higher MCC‐specific mortality in men, this did not reach statistical significance, as recently reported. 37 Our findings are consistent with those of prior single‐institution registry studies. 2 , 7 , 28 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 A previous study 28 including 8 SOTR and 89 immunocompetent patients with MCC also concluded that SOTR were younger at diagnosis and had increased (4.1‐fold) hazards for progression, MCC‐specific mortality (11.9‐fold) and all‐cause mortality (10.5‐fold). 28 A more recent study reported a 25% 5‐year survival for SOTR‐MCC, 7 compared with 16% in our study.

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