Four patients receive cancer after accepting organs from the same donor

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19 September 2018, 09:59(8 years ago)

Four patients have been diagnosed with breast cancer after taking organs from the same donor, a CNN report explains. breast cancer developed over the years in patients after transplants, where three of them died of disease. Dr. Frederick Bemelman, professor of nephrology at Amsterdam University and author and [...]

breast cancer developed over the years in patients after transplants, where three of them died of disease.

Dr. Frederic Bemelman, professor of nephrology at Amsterdam University and author of the report, stressed that this is an extremely rare “rare”, the first to have faced 20 years in the field of transplant immunology. “There is always a slight danger to something that goes wrong during a medical procedure”, she said. “Even if you undergo a simple procedure of the cocoon bladder, you have a small chance of something happening during the procedure.

The 53-year-old Donator had no known medical records and the presence of Malij cancer was unknown when the kidneys, lungs, liver and heart were removed.

Three of the organ recipients died after the cancer was metastated or spread from the country of origin to new areas, broadcasting IndexOnline. The fourth survived a series of treatments, including the removal of donated right kidney, the ban on immunopression drugs, standard drugs after transplants to avoid refusing the new organ and chemotherapy.

In her report, Bemelman stressed that when the cancer resulting from the donor occurs, it is extremely helpful to remove the donor organ. This allows the patient to stop taking immunospressive drugs, and the immune system can return and fight against tumor cells”, she said.

However, Graham Lord, professor of medicine and nephrology consultant at Kings College London, said patients are usually advised whether to replace the organ, depending on the type of cancer and survival levels. God wasn't involved.

The organ donor died in 2007 because of an attack after which its organs, kidneys, hearts, and liver are made available for donations.

The study suggests that the donor had micro”, cancer cell groups that have spread from their country of origin, but were too small to detect. Earlier reports have noted that cancer transmission can occur through organ transplantation, but this is believed to be the first case that breast cancer is transferred.