She Beat cancer now she is another fight for her life
By: Editorial Board
Fact: UNOS, the nonprofit group that manages the nation’s transplant system through an exclusive contract with the federal government.
Opinion: Patients with metastatic cancers are generally denied organ transplants, even if they are in remission, because the high chance of relapse means the organs would very likely be “wasted.”
Claim: A spokesman for UNOS stresses that the organization is doing its best to ensure that organs get to the people who need them most but that it is trying to manage a great shortage of a very precious resource.
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