Rare indeed is the surgeon who would knowingly transplant a malignant cancer from one patient to another, and rarer still the patient who would willingly accept it. In Buffalo last week, two surgeons made two such transplants between patients who not only accepted but demanded the surgery. For both, it was the last slender hope for reprieve from a rapidly fatal disease.
Robert F. Allen, 29, a varsity football guard at Illinois in 1956-58 and now a Tucson insurance salesman, felt last fall as though he had pulled a muscle in his left...
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