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A woman with cystic fibrosis has been diagnosed with cancer in France after a lung transplant, according to a study published in the journal Lange Cancer, warning of the risk of transplantation of such organs.
The patient was under medical surveillance since childhood for cystic fibrosis. After a rapid decline in the respiratory function of the disease, doctors decided in November 2015 to undergo a lung transplant.
"According to the donor database, the lungs were taken from a 57-year-old woman who smoked a pack of cigarettes every 30 years," says the study conducted by doctors at the Montpellier University Hospital. She pointed out that the tests performed on the donor's death clinically showed no defect.
In June 2017, the lung patient was admitted to the oncology department of Montpellier University Hospital. She died two months later from lung cancer.
The study showed that the symptoms are very similar to those caused by cancer caused by smoking.
"The short delay between lung transplantation and the appearance of the first X-ray defect indicates that the cancer began during the donor's life," write the study's authors. Immunosuppressive therapies can help accelerate cancer growth.
Dr. Jean-Louis Pogol and his colleagues advised patients to be treated with caution by members of smokers because of the relatively long incubation period of lung cancer.
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