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Organ Donation Week 2019
2 September 2019Families are being urged to talk about organ donation ahead of the change in law in England in spring 2020
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Royal Papworth recruits 500th LuCID study patient
29 August 2019Our thoracic oncology research team celebrated a big milestone this week for the Lung Cancer Indicator Detection (LuCID) study.
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Sir Terence English: Marking 40 years since the UK’s first successful heart transplant
22 August 2019It was his last chance to prove that heart transplantation in the UK could work. Here, Sir Terence recalls the opposition, hostility and triumph involved in one of the most major medical breakthroughs of the 20th century.
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Keith Castle: Marking 40 years since the UK’s first successful heart transplant
21 August 2019Keith Castle received the UK's first successful heart transplant in August 1979. His son, Keith Jr, remembers how his dad became an "overnight celebrity".
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Marking 40 years since the UK’s first successful heart transplant
18 August 2019To mark the 40th anniversary of the UK's first successful heart transplant, performed at Royal Papworth Hospital, the surgeon and the patient’s son are to be reunited.
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Royal Papworth patient and Cambridge student to be subject of feature film
15 August 2019Alex Stobbs, a Royal Papworth cystic fibrosis patient and Cambridge University student, is set to be made the subject of a new film.
