Receives the lungs of a smoker, the patient dies of a cancer

A French woman suffering from cystic fibrosis died of lung cancer after receiving new transplants. The donor was a smoker, according to a study by the journal Lung Cancer, which warns against the risk of transplanting these organs. From childhood, the patient was treated for cystic fibrosis. And after a serious deterioration of the respiratory functions, she was subjected to a pulmonary transplantation. In November 2015.

The lungs were taken from a smoker

"According to the donor database, the transplanted lungs were taken from a 57-year-old man who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for 30 years," says the study, conducted by doctors Chu de Montpellier. Examinations performed at the time of the donor's brain death did not reveal any abnormalities. In June 2017, the transplant patient was admitted to thoracic oncology at the Montpellier hospital and died two months later, without the possibility of treatment.

The patient dies of a cancer

According to the study, the symptoms clearly recall those caused by smoking. "The short time that has elapsed between lung transplantation and the appearance of the first radiological abnormality suggests that carcinogenesis began during the life of the donor," the authors of the study continue.

The cancer would have progressed at an abnormal rate because of the immunosuppressive treatments that the transplanted woman took to avoid organ rejection. "Given the relatively long latency of lung cancer, we propose to consider cautiously the transplants of smokers or donors recently arrested", the doctors said.

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