The International Transplant-Skin Cancer Collaborative (ITSCC) is a non-profit (501(c)3) organization dedicated to finding ways to better manage skin cancers in patients who have received solid organ transplants.

Founded in 2001 by a core group of dermatologic surgeons from several institutions, ITSCC was an outgrowth of a research project at Mayo Clinic that focused on metastatic skin cancer in transplant patients. As part of the multicenter collaboration for the project, it became evident that many physicians were facing challenges treating skin cancers in organ transplant recipients. An early collaborative group, under the name The North American Transplant Skin Cancer Collaborative, formed which was dedicated to finding optimal care for the skin and skin cancer of these patients. As membership became more diverse, including physicians and researchers from Central and South America, Australia, and other regions, the name was changed to ITSCC to reflect its wider membership. Today, ITSCC is a dynamic, growing collaborative of clinicians and researchers from multiple disciplines dedicated to advancing the care and understanding of skin cancer in organ transplant recipients.

ITSCC's mission is to integrate and support basic scientific and clinical research to address the special needs of transplant recipients with skin cancer in order to improve quality of care; and to educate patients, scientists, primary care doctors and specialist physicians on the unique needs and clinical care issues in the transplant patients.

So far, ITSCC has received support through unrestricted educational grants from pharmaceutical companies and donations of time and funds from physicians, researchers, transplant patients and their families. Your financial contribution to ITSCC is tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law and supports the education and research of physicians and scientists committed to improving the quality of life of organ transplant recipients.

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