Matthew Millington was a British soldier who developed an incurable lung condition while serving in Iraq.  A year later he was told he would die in two years unless he had a transplant.

So he had the lung transplant.

And died later of lung cancer.  It turned out the organs donated to him came from someone who smoked 30 to 50 cigarettes a day.  Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, which performed the transplant, said early X-rays did not find any sign of cancer in Mr Millington’s lungs.  Drugs given to Mr Millington to help his body accept the new organs sped up the spread of a tumour, which had been missed in the screening of the transplanted lungs.  The hospital defended its use of smokers’ lungs in transplants and said all organs were screened rigorously.

Shit some people are unlucky.

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