Sick Iraq war veteran dies after being given smoker’s cancerous lungs in transplant

Daily Mail [UK], by Katie Davies Posted By: Photoonist- Sun, 11 Oct 2009 06:57:49 GMT An Iraq war veteran died after a hospital transplant gave him a pair of cancerous lungs donated by a smoker. Matthew Millington, 31, a corporal in the Queen's Royal Lancers, had the operation to save him from an incurable lung condition. But the donated organs ' from someone who smoked 30 to 50 roll'up cigarettes a day ' gave him cancer. (Snip) Drugs to ensure Mr Millington's body accepted the new organs actually sped up

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