Just my opinion here, but I personally wouldn't want an organ or tissues from a cancer patient. Worse yet, due to HIPPA, you wouldn't even know where the organ came from, at least in only the most general of terms.

I have HCV, so I can never donate blood, tissues or organs so the point is moot for me anyway.

That 5 year thing is a number used by researchers and is an abstract number, mainly used for quantitative analysis.

My doctors like to use 8 years before pronouncing a "total cure" whatever that is. In reality it's probably probably whatever you want it to be.

There is so much that they don't know about cancer that it surprises me that the ACS would have that opinion. I wonder if there have been any scientific studies done to validate the efficacy transplants from cancer patients.


Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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