re organ donation and transplantation fact sheet in a previous article dougb comm mot com doug bank says in article apr sbcs sunysb edu mhollowa ic sunysb edu organ donors are healthy people who have died suddenly usually through accident or head injury they are brain dead the organs are kept alive through mechanical means ok so how do you define healthy people my wife cannot donate blood because she has been to a malarial region in the past three years in fact she tried to have her bone marrow typed and they wouldn t even do that why i can t donate blood either because not only have i been to a malarial region but i have also been diagnosed and surgically treated for testicular cancer the blood bank wont accept blood from me for years obviously it wouldn t be of much help to treat one problem by knowingly introducing another cancer mestastizes my imperfect understanding of the facts are that gonadal cancer is particularly dangerous in this regard i haven t done the research on it but i don t recall ever hearing of a case of cancer being transmitted by a blood transfusion probably just a common sense kind of arbitrary precaution transmissable diseases like malaria though are obviously another story michael holloway e mail mhollowa ccmail sunysb edu mail to freenet is forwarded phone
