A report from the Daily Mail states that a British Iraq war veteran has died as a result of cancerous, smoker's lungs given to him as part of a transplant. Matthew Millington, 31, needed the transplant because he had an incurable lung condition. He had been told in 2006 he would die in two years unless he had a transplant.
According to the report, the lungs Millington received came from someone who smoked 30 to 50 cigarettes a day. He died in February of last year.
Papworth Hospital in Cambridge carried out the transplant. They said X-rays on the organs did not find any sign of cancer. Typically, such organs would be checked before transplant. At the same time, one would not think it was a good idea to transplant smoker's lungs into a patient. Still, Papworth defended its policies.
Apparently, to make matters worse, anti-rejection drugs given to Millington actually sped up the cancer's spread.
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