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font-family: Poppins; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(58, 58, 58);"><a href="https://naijaonpoint.com/author/emmy/" title="Browse Author Articles" class="post-author-a post-author-avatar" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease; font-size: 12px; float: none; margin: 0px 12px 0px 0px; white-space: nowrap; line-height: 26px; display: inline-block;"><span class="post-author-name" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 150px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; text-transform: capitalize !important;">By <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); margin-left: 2px;">News Agency Of Nigeria</span></span></a> <span class="time" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 12px 0px 0px; float: none; white-space: nowrap; line-height: 26px; display: inline-block; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216);"><time class="post-published updated" datetime="2018-09-18T05:04:05+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">On <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); margin-left: 2px;">Sep 18, 2018</span></time></span></div></div></div><div class="entry-content clearfix single-post-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); padding-bottom: 20px; text-align: inherit; text-transform: initial;"><div id="mvp-content-main" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;">The National Union of Nigerian Students, NANS, has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to arrest and prosecute former Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;">NANS said EFCC should arrest and prosecute Adeosun over the alleged forgery of her National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, exemption certificate. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;">In a statement issued yesterday, the President of the body, Salahudeen Lukman also called for the arrest of the Director General, DG, of the NYSC under whom the forged certificate was issued.</p><div class="code-block code-block-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px; clear: both;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2312201431500125" data-ad-slot="8203245425" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"></ins></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;">The statement reads, “It is highly embarrassing that an agency of government as exceptional as NYSC could be so lose, corrupt and uncoordinated to the extent that her certificate could be sold and forged.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;">“The Federal Government must as a matter of urgency curb all corrupt practices in the scheme. It is our resolve to pursue this matter to the latter to assist Mr President’s anti-corruption fight aimed at creating sanity in the public service.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;">“While waiting patiently to see EFCC do its work on this subject matter on or before the next seven working days, the union shall not hesitate to employ other legitimate means under law to ensure the alleged ‘forger’ and her accomplice in NYSC face the wrath of the law. We are all equal before the law. Ignorance is not an excuse in the court of law.”</p></div></div></article></div></div></div></div></main></div>

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Linda Ikeji: I can’t believe I’m a mum.

<h1 class="single-post-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; font-family: Poppins; line-height: 1.3; font-size: 24px; text-transform: capitalize; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Linda Ikeji Welcomes Son<br></h1><p>Courtesy: Naijaonpoint</p><p><a href="https://naijaonpoint.com/author/emmy/" title="Browse Author Articles" class="post-author-a post-author-avatar" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease; outline: -webkit-focus-ring-color auto 5px; outline-offset: -2px; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 12px; float: none; margin: 0px 12px 0px 0px; white-space: nowrap; line-height: 26px; display: inline-block;"><span class="post-author-name" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 150px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; text-transform: capitalize !important;">By <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); margin-left: 2px;">News Agency Of Nigeria</span></span></a><span style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Roboto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkX821HuNsvn8TyiJIGWcI1GOLkLPQCM_ILiFcKM8mX-Id1dDLLkBb2st3z_KaClC4lEuB_aUGRU0oJGDEJQldK70_P8DA3p37kLqqAldxnHODSlOjroHkGoqnzch45ouvNFQpINvMIGM/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkX821HuNsvn8TyiJIGWcI1GOLkLPQCM_ILiFcKM8mX-Id1dDLLkBb2st3z_KaClC4lEuB_aUGRU0oJGDEJQldK70_P8DA3p37kLqqAldxnHODSlOjroHkGoqnzch45ouvNFQpINvMIGM/" /></a><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Roboto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Popular blogger and former model, Linda Ikeja, has delivered a baby boy in Atlanta, United States.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Roboto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She confirmed this on her Instagram page on Monday.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Roboto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ikeji, in a post, expressed her excitement as she revealed that her son was born on September 17 (today)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Roboto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She wrote, ‘I welcomed my first child, popularly known as baby J today September 17th in a hospital in Atlanta. I can’t believe I’m a mum.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Roboto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 15px;">”Make I sleep small for now. lol. Thanks guys for the well wishes. Love you guys so much!”</span><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Roboto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></p>

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Four European patients developed breast cancer after receiving organs from the same donor.

<div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span data-type="sourceText" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; font-size: 26px;">Dx: Health.</h1><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; font-size: 26px;">Four people get cancer from donated organ in 'extraordinary rare' case</h1><h3 class="cnnds_kicker" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.625; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 12px; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none;"><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" data-type="byline-area" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);">By Nina Avramova, CNN</p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><span class="timingText" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Updated at</span> 0715 GMT (1515 HKT) September 19, 2018</p></div></h3><h3 class="cnnds_kicker" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.625; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 12px; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px;">STORY HIGHLIGHTS</h3><ul class="styles_list__1_Bwk" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><li class="styles_highlight__1bpMD cnnds_txt_small" data-area="normal-highlight" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); font-size: 14px;">The patients developed breast cancer years after their transplants</li><li class="styles_highlight__1bpMD cnnds_txt_small" data-area="normal-highlight" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 14px;">The researchers stressed that this is an "extremely rare" case</li></ul></span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span data-type="sourceText" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">(CNN) — </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Four European patients developed breast cancer after receiving organs from the same donor, <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ajt.14766" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">a case report</a> explains.</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">The patients developed breast cancer years after their transplants, with three of them dying of the disease.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">Dr. Frederike Bemelman, professor of nephrology at the University of Amsterdam and author of the report, stressed that this is an "extremely rare" case, the first she has encountered in 20 years in the field of transplantation immunology. "There is always a small risk" of something going wrong during a medical procedure, she said. "Even if you undergo a simple gallbladder procedure, you also have a small chance of something happening to you during the procedure."</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs92Pn1XL4I8_Ns-0Jv0IBHX3KJbaap8t82aCmbm8McYjsPA5-6qhDP4_TmKYY_jaY_lCsuJ8JxL9TvK7xK_e_JyUjCuh83kI5-qTG3s3GqzRBkba3HrSNybxNdaDSN_6SaF-g4Q2ROK0/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs92Pn1XL4I8_Ns-0Jv0IBHX3KJbaap8t82aCmbm8McYjsPA5-6qhDP4_TmKYY_jaY_lCsuJ8JxL9TvK7xK_e_JyUjCuh83kI5-qTG3s3GqzRBkba3HrSNybxNdaDSN_6SaF-g4Q2ROK0/" /></a><br></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><a aria-label="Related Article: There's a 24-fold rise in organ transplants from drug overdose donors" aria-disabled="false" class="_0308207a _1e227843 " href="https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/04/16/health/drug-overdoses-organ-transplants-study/index.html" name="Related Article: There's a 24-fold rise in organ transplants from drug overdose donors" icon="" target="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Related Article:</span> There's a 24-fold rise in organ transplants from drug overdose donors</span></a><br></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">The 53-year-old donor had no known medical conditions, and the malignancy was unknown when her kidneys, lungs, liver and heart were harvested.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Three of the organ recipients died after the cancer metastasized, or spread from their place of origin to new areas in the body.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">The fourth survived after a series of treatments, including removal of the donated right kidney, stopping of immunosuppression medication -- standard drugs after transplants to avoid a rejection of the new organ -- and chemotherapy.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">In her report, Bemelman stressed that once a donor-derived cancer occurs, it is extremely helpful to remove the donor organ. "This allows the patient to stop taking immunosuppressant drugs, and the immune system can restore itself and fight against the tumor cells," she said.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">However, Graham Lord, professor of medicine and honorary consultant in nephrology at King's College London, said that patients<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span>are typically advised on whether to replace the organ, depending on the cancer type and survival rates. Lord was not involved with this case.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; font-size: 22px;">'Undetectable malignancy'</h3></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">The organ donor died in 2007 due to a stroke, after which her lungs, kidneys, heart and liver were made available for donation.</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">Lord</span> said this was "essentially an undetectable malignancy at the time of donation."</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Sixteen months after the transplant, the lung recipient, a 42-year-old woman, was admitted to the hospital with transplant dysfunctions, according to the report. After breast cancer cells were detected in her lymph nodes, a DNA analysis showed that the cancer came from the donor.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">The left kidney recipient, a 62-year-old woman, and the 59-year-old woman who received the liver died of the same malignancy in 2013 and 2014, respectively.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; font-size: 22px;">Advantages of donation outweigh risks.</h3></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">The study suggests that the donor had "micro metastases," groups of cancer cells that have spread from their site of origin but were too small to be detected.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><u>Previous<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/bjs.9460" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;"> reports</a></u> have noted that cancer transmission can occur through organ transplantation, but this is believed to be the first case of breast cancer being transferred.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Organ donations are not allowed by anyone with an active malignancy, except most skin carcinomas and some localized tumors. The risk of transmitting tumors is between 0.01% and 0.05% for each organ transplant.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">"The advantages of organ transplantation far outweigh these small risks," Bemelman said. "People should not be worried.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Lord explained that this "extraordinary rare occurrence" could potentially be avoided in the future, as there are experimental programs in the works for early cancer diagnosis.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">It is unclear whether a CT scan would have uncovered the donor's malignancy before the transplants, but Bemelman is doubtful. She warns against routine use of CT scans for all donors, as this would increase irrelevant findings and could lead to a decrease in the "very scarce" donor pool.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><br></div>

Four European patients developed breast cancer after receiving organs from the same donor.

Dx: Health. Four people get cancer from donated organ in 'extraordinary rare' case By Nina Avramova, CNN Updated at  0715 GMT (1515 ...

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