Unusual A woman transplanted from a lung dies of lung cancer

A woman with cystic fibrosis he died of cancer, after receiving a lung transplant a smoker

The patient urgent need of a tengraving double of lung. After the surgery, it seemed that everything was improving, but quickly developed a thundering effect. cancer that killed him. After the studies, the doctors found that the lungs he had received came from a smoker.

"According to the donor database, the transplanted lungs belong to a 57-year-old woman who has been smoking a pack of cigarettes every day for 30 years", according to the study conducted by medical oncologists of Montpellier University Hospital.

In June 2017, the patient was admitted to the thoracic oncology unit of the aforementioned hospital, but two months later she died of lung cancer and no therapy was performed. Could be tempted. This has been reported by Chronicle.

The short time elapsed between lung transplantation and the appearance of the first radiological abnormality suggests that carcinogenesis began in the donor's life, the study's authors added.

After confirming the origin of the disease, the professionals explained that it was a cancer whose growth would have been greatly accelerated by the immunosuppressive treatments received by the patient to avoid the rejection of his new lungs.

According to Dr. Jean-Louis Pujol and colleagues, "given the relatively long latency of lung cancer, we suggest that transplants of smokers or recently arrested donors be treated with caution."

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