I thought they had to thoroughly check organs before transplants



Soldier Had Cancerous Lung TransplantAOL News
posted: 3 HOURS 5 MINUTES AGOcomments: 19filed under: World NewsPRINT|E-MAILMOREText SizeAAA(Oct. 12) -- A British inquest heard testimony last week into the death of an Iraq war veteran who died after getting cancerous lungs in a transplant.
Matthew Millington, 31, needed the transplant because of the terminal respiratory condition he was diagnosed with in 2006. But the person the organs came from smoked 30 to 50 rolled cigarettes a day, reported the Times of London.
Millington received the double lung transplant in April 2007. A cancerous tumor was found six months later, and the soldier died in February 2008.
Because he was a cancer patient, he was not eligible to receive another transplant.
The inquest was told that Millington died of complications from the transplant surgery and the immuno-suppressive drugs he was given so his body would not reject his new lungs, reported the U.K.'s Press Association.
The hospital said early X-rays on the donated lungs did not show any signs of cancer, and that it's not unusual for smokers' lungs to be used for transplants.
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OMG that is so wrong! They are supposed to do thorough examinations of all organs before transplants! And to use a smoker's lungs?! I hear lawsuit!!!

I wonder how many hospitals turned it down before getting to his name. My fil is on the transplant list and they usually give you all the info and let you decline or accept the organ if the hospital accepts it. Fil was offered a kidney from a cancer patient but someone else got it first but it was transplanted. The patient knew all the risks.

I heard about this. Crazy and totally wrong!

OMG thats Soooo Wrong. How Sad :-(