No liver transplant for church leader
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From Times Wire Reports
Doctors in Miami halted liver transplant surgery on the leader of Greece’s Orthodox Church because his cancer appeared to have spread into his abdomen.
Archbishop Christodoulos, 68, was diagnosed with liver and colon cancer in June after undergoing intestinal surgery, but it was not known that it had spread.
Doctors said a transplant was not possible because anti-rejection drugs would fuel the cancer tumors’ growth.
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