translated from Spanish: Receives transplant lungs of smokers and dies of cancer

a patient who suffered from cystic fibrosis developed cancer shortly after receiving a transplant from a smoker’s lungs in France, according to a study published in the magazine Lung Cancer, which warns of the risk of such organ transplantation.  The patient had been treated since childhood by cystic fibrosis. After the rapid deterioration of its respiratory functions, typical of this illness, doctors decided in November 2015 give a lung transplant.  
“According to the database of donors, transplanted lungs belonged to a 57-year-old woman who had smoked a pack of cigarettes daily for 30 years,” according to the study by medical oncologists from the University hospital of Montpellier (South).

The study points out that tests conducted at the time of the death of the donor did not reveal anomalies.   In June 2017, the patient, sick, was interned in the mentioned hospital Thoracic Oncology Unit. Two months later, he died of lung cancer while you could try to give any therapy.  

According to the study, the symptoms correspond to the cancer caused by smoking.  “The brief period between Lung Transplantation and the emergence of the first radiological abnormality suggests that carcinogenesis began in the life of the donor,” added the authors of the work. A cancer whose growth would have greatly accelerated by treatments immunosuppressants that the patient received to prevent rejection of their new lungs.  

According to doctor Jean-Louis Pujol and his colleagues, “taking into account the latency time relatively long lung cancer, suggest that transplants of donor-smoking (or recently left the tobacco) are treated with caution”. In this note:

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