Patients’ behavior and risk perception of non-melanoma skin cancer after organ transplant: what are patients’ expectations for new preventive treatments?

While organ transplants greatly improve patients’ quality of life, transplant patients must nonetheless take immunosuppressive drugs to prevent organ rejection. Thus, new risks emerge, including a higher chance of developing skin cancer. The objectives of the study were to better understand the organ transplant patients’ behaviors regarding non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) risk and to define patients’ expectations regarding a new treatment to prevent NMSC lesions.