Veteran dies after being given smoker's cancerous lungs in transplant

Baack · Oct 12, 2009

An Iraq war veteran died after a hospital transplant gave him a pair of cancerous lungs donated by a smoker.
Matthew Millington, 31, a corporal in the Queen's Royal Lancers, had the operation to save him from an incurable lung condition.
But the donated organs - from someone who smoked 30 to 50 roll-up cigarettes a day - gave him cancer.
Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, which carried out the transplant, said early X-rays on the organs did not find any sign of cancer.
In fact it had been missed. The tumour was discovered only after six months. Drugs to ensure Mr Millington's body accepted the new organs actually sped up its spread.
The soldier from Stoke-on-Trent was given radiotherapy but finally died at home in February last year.
Mr Millington served in the Army from the day of his 16th birthday, but while in Iraq in 2005 he began to struggle with his breathing. In 2006 he was found to have a serious condition and was told he would die in two years unless he had a transplant.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...dier-dies-given-smokers-lungs-transplant.html

LooneyTune · Oct 12, 2009

Jesus! You'd think they would have checked the lungs or the history of the person they came from before doing the transplant?? Good Lord if that's the sign of what's to come to us if we get universal health care, no thanks I'll pass!

doubledragon5 · Oct 12, 2009

So sad, but that is what government health care will do for you...

Sad_Panda · Oct 12, 2009

That guy smoked more than a 6-71T needing a rebuild job.

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