[cherry]

IIRC, the life expectancy of CF patients used to be quite low....the fact that she lived into her 20's says something good compared to many years ago....

If one is on a waiting list, for 18months, I don't think you get to be too picky.....

she might have died from her CF complications alone within a few months....

so taking some lungs, even though from a smoker, is a no brainer...no one could predict that the lungs would be cancerous....

not everything works out, but the intentions and reasoning probably were correct...

[boop]

Well put. Yes the immunosuppressive therapy probably let the new lungs be more vulnerable to cancer, but it was still a gamble worth taking. No lungs at all, and a certain death within a short time, or at least a "chance" with smoker's lungs.

I'd take the chance.