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This chapter discusses the aetiology, incidence, screening, diagnosis, prognosis factors, and treatment of the cancer following solid organ transplant. After infection and cardiovascular disease, malignancy is the next most common cause of death in solid organ transplant recipients. Far more commonly, cancer develops de novo in the recipient some time after transplantation, with the risk increasing...