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Old 04-07-2008, 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Scandia View Post
Oh my goodness that is so horrible.

But I did not think cancer could be contagious. Although if the organs had cancerous cells, and they kept multiplying inside the recipient's body, then that is the only possibility for this to have happened.
Yes, that's what happened - the organs were already cancerous or pre-cancerous. Lymphoma is passed throughout the body's lymph nodes, and that frequently passes to nearby organs.
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