 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Jan 2011 Posts: 571 | Transplant patients are given drugs to make sure they don't reject the donor tissue. The drugs suppress their immune system. What a normally healthy person might be able to fight off with their immune system, a transplant recipient has a much more difficult time. Their immune system isn't sufficient to handle cancer or it's treatment.
It is noble to be a tissue donor whether alive or posthumously. Bless you for wanting to help.
Ex-spouse MISDIAGNOSED with SCC-HN IVa 12/10. Tonsils out 1/11. 4 teeth out 2/11. TX Erbitux x2, IMRT x2 2/11. 2nd opinion-benign BCC-NOT CANCER 3/11. TX stopped 3/11. New doctors 4/11. ENT agrees with 2nd opinion 5/11. ENT scoped him-all clear 7/11. Ordered MRI anyway. MRI 8/22/11 Result-all clear.
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