In a rare case, three people die of cancer after 'contracting' it from same female organ donor leaving medical community stunned
Experts have said that the odds of contracting cancer from even a single transplant is as small as 1 in 10,000 cases
An "extraordinary" case report has revealed that three people died of breast cancer after they all received organs from the same donor. The donor, a 53-year-old woman, had died of a stroke in 2007 and had donated her kidneys, lungs, liver, and heart to patients who needed transplants.
However, it was revealed that within six years of the organs being transplanted, four out of five of the recipients died. While the heart patient died of sepsis, the other four recipients developed breast cancer from the donated organs, and only one of them survived. The cancer had not been noticed by doctors before the organs were transplanted. The disease secretly entered their otherwise healthy bodies and caused the cancer to proliferate.
