A man who underwent an organ transplant to treat liver cancer ended up contracting a different form of the same disease and dying.
The unidentified 69-year-old patient, originally from Arizona, US, suffered from cirrhosis and received a liver transplant from a deceased donor in 2019.
The transplant surgery was successful, but months later, the user developed an aggressive and advanced form of cancer.
Further testing of cells taken from the biopsy revealed the cancer was “markedly different” to the disease the man had before he underwent the transplant. And based on a series of lab results, doctors determined that the new liver cancer was "donor-originated."
Cases of "transplanted" cancer are extremely rare and there are no statistics on the subject, says the Daily Mail, noting that the medical report on the case reads that "this is the only case in the literature describing a lung cancer derived from a donor without known malignancy."
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