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		_rpd on Sept 18, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Transmission of cancer by a single multiorgan dono... Donated her kidneys, lungs, liver and heart. All four recipients developed a similar breast cancer.

anonymfus on Sept 18, 2018 [–]

Heart recipient died from sepsis before developing cancer. There were two kidney recipients, right kidney recipient remains alive because of nephrectomy.

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