Inquiry launched as transplant patients contract cancer

An investigation is underway after two transplant patients got cancer from the same donor.

The recipients were each given a kidney from a woman with a rare form of blood cancer which was not picked up in routine safety checks.

The disease was detected too late in a post-mortem examination.

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), the agency responsible for transplant safety, said research would determine the scale of the problem nationally — via redwolf.newsvine.com