Woman Dies After Receiving Smoker’s Lungs in Transplant
Jupiterimages/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Jennifer Wederell, a 27-year-old British woman with cystic fibrosis, died of lung cancer after she received the lungs of a heavy smoker in an organ transplant.According to BBC News, Wederell had been on the waiting…
Smokers Lungs Offer Survival Advantage
Stockbyte/Thinkstock(LONDON) — Patients who underwent lung transplants lived an additional three years compared with patients who never received donor organs, even if the lungs they received came from people who had previously smoked, according to a n…
Bride Races Against Cystic Fibrosis to Get to the Altar
Stockbyte/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Doctors said Kirstie Mills Tancock may not make it to the alter without a new set of lungs.The 21-year-old from Devon in the United Kingdom has cystic fibrosis, and just days before her dream wedding last year, her lun…