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A patient in the United States received an organ transplant. But just four months after the operation, an abnormal growth was found on his liver and six weeks later he was diagnosed with cancer. Despite months of chemotherapy. The cancer spread throughout his body and he eventually died. Doctors later discovered that his cancer came from an organ donor who had an undiagnosed cancer at the time of his death.
A 69-year-old man in Arizona has died after contracting cancer during an organ transplant, The Sun reported. The patient underwent a liver transplant due to alcoholic cirrhosis. A condition caused by chronic alcohol use that causes fibrosis of the liver tissue.
The report said that before the surgery, doctors found no signs of cancer anywhere else in the patient’s body. However, four months after the surgery, doctors found two lumps in the liver during a routine ultrasound scan. Which were diagnosed as undetermined abnormalities at the time.
Six weeks after the test, doctors found too many new tumors to count and diagnosed it with a highly aggressive form of “invasive lung cancer. Which means the cancer cells have spread from where they started to other parts of the เล่น UFABET ผ่านมือถือ สะดวกทุกที่ ทุกเวลา body.
Doctors said PCR tests confirmed that the newly found liver metastases came from a liver donor, not the patient himself. Due to the distinct genetic differences.