Transplant patients got cancer from donor kidneys

Independent.ie Friday 2nd March, 2012

Britain has apologised to two patients after they contracted cancer from donated kidneys.Robert Law (59), from Wirral, and Gillian Smart (46), from St Helens, were both given the life-saving transplants at the Royal Liverpool Hospital.The kidneys came from the same deceased female donor and medics only learned after the transplant surgery had taken...

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