Word: donors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...donor, Boston real estate dealer Maurice Gordon, withdrew the gift several hours before a building was to be dedicated in his name...
...kidney that Joseph J. Palazola received in August 1964, came from a donor who had died of cancer that had spread from the lungs to the brain. At the time of the transplant, there was no evidence to suggest the cancer had traveled to other parts of the victim's body. Nonetheless, Palazola developed a malignant tumor near the transplanted kidney within 18 months. When radiation treatments failed to reduce the tumor, Palazola was taken off immunosuppressives. When this caused rapid rejection of the transplant, the kidney and most of the tumor were excised...
...Wilson and his colleagues performed a second transplant on Palazola in November 1966. This time the donor was his mother. Last week the doctors reported that "he had returned to full daily activity and has remained free of cancer...
...August 1964, Wilson transplanted a kidney from a cancer victim to a patient. Then, in January 1966, he discovered that the transplant had induced in his patient the same form of cancer that had killed the kidney donor. Wilson discontinued the use of immunosuppressive drugs which had inhibited the patient's ability to reject the transplant by weakening the antibodies...
...Stanford Medical Center: "This place is a mess, and we're doing a heart transplant!" The "mess" meant that surgery was even busier than usual, with 15 operations scheduled; four were still in progress when Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr. began the four-part series to remove the donor's heart and transplant one of her kidneys, and implant her heart in Mike Kasperak's chest...