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Updated the 11/5/2018 – 12:13
Keywords: woman, cancer, transplant, lungs
Paris, 11/05/2018 (The People Online – A woman died of cancer several weeks after a lung transplant The French patient had cystic fibrosis since childhood and was scheduled for a double lung transplant, according to La Vanguardia
Although the transplant was a success and that, in the postoperative period, the woman showed signs of improvement, few weeks after the intervention, she was diagnosed with lung cancer without possibility of any treatment After two months, the patient died of the tumor
The investigation later showed that the organs came from a smoker who was probably already developing the tumor Medical badysis of the case, published in the journal Lung Cancer, the Its symptoms confirm that the death was caused by smoking. "The short time elapsed between lung transplantation and the appearance of the first radiological abnormality suggests that carcinogenesis began in the life of the donor," says the same badysis, published by AFP.
After the hearing of the case, Dr. Jean-Louis Pujol suggested that transplants of smoker donors, or who have been recently, be treated with caution and that the time of latency of lung cancer is taken into account.
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