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No Donors for Transplant: Half a Year Passed since Organ Transplant Law Validated
Half a year has passed since the organ transplant law took effect in October 1997. This law was intended to promote the transplantation of the heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, small intestine and eye at the brain death stage. However, despite the increase in patients who require the organs, there has been no transplantation from the donors at brain death stage.
Several issues are highlighted: the Ministry of Health and
Welfare restricts the 96 medical centers which are qualified to
make a diagnosis of brain death. These medical centers cover only
30% of patients who are potentially donors for transplantation.
Some of the transplant surgeons are strongly demanding the
increase of numbers in the qualified emergency medical centers.
Another issue is the difficulty in obtaining the permission
according to the new law. Japanese transplant law is the strictest
UK-Japan Workshop on Gastrointestinal Cancer was Held Towards Improved Understanding Between East and West
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Mutation Research Award 1997 to Dr Minako Nagao
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`Photodynamic Therapy' for Early Lung Cancers
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The 61st Annual Course `Principles of Colon and Rectal Surgery'
The 56th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cancer Association
Chemotherapy Foundation Symposium XV Innovative Cancer Therapy for Tomorrow
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