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To: BenLurkin

Organ donor administrator should be charged as a serial killer.


2 posted on 09/17/2018 7:31:41 AM PDT by DownInFlames (Gals)
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To: DownInFlames
Organ donor administrator should be charged as a serial killer.

Not necessarily.Cancer cells can "simmer" (my word) in a person for some time before there's *any* overt evidence that they're present.And once an organ is obtained for transplant every minute counts.If the time window from the time the organ is harvested to the time it meets its new owner is exceeded the organ becomes absolutely useless...to anyone.

This type of thing is just one of the many risks a person takes in seeking someone else's tissue.

14 posted on 09/17/2018 7:54:15 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: DownInFlames
“Organ donor administrator should be charged as a serial killer.”

Unless something was missed that would have made the diagnosis of breast cancer in the donor obvious, it's not anyone’s ‘fault’. If only a few cells had metastasized to the donor organs prior to transplantation, there's really no way to detect this. My only question is whether or not she had a significantly advanced primary tumor in the breast that could have been picked up by exam. For female donors, and given the frequency of breast cancer, it should probably be standard procedure to do a careful breast examination - if not mammography.

21 posted on 09/17/2018 8:21:37 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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