Andy Wellsalmost 7 years ago

Cancer Spreads from Organ Donor to 4 People in 'Extraordinary' Case

This extraordinary case shows that organ transplants can not only pass on infectious diseases, but also cancer, at least in some rare cases. It's well known that organ transplants can pass infectious diseases from donors to recipients in rare cases. But even more rarely, transplants can transmit cancer, as a new case shows. In what's being described as an "extraordinary case," four people in Europe developed breast cancer after they received organs from the same donor, according to a new report. Three of the patients died from the cancer, which underscores the "often-fatal consequences of donor-derived breast cancer," the authors wrote in their report, published in the July issue of the American Journal of Transplantation. Read full article...