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Can someone tell me if there is an age limit as to when a person can donate a kidney?  I  am 65 and have been told I am too old. Is this correct? Also can a cancer survivor (me) donate? Please respond to group as I get TONS of spam when I leave my address. Thanks.

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Mara, Thanks very much for the information. It is what I suspected but really had not heard anything concrete. And thanks for the cancer note too. My feeling on that is I am cancer free and if anyone doesn’t think I am, prove it!!! Six years for one, one year for another. On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 15:52:11 -0400, "Mara" – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -<nos…@notformenothanks.com> wrote: ><no…@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:3b7809a7.6536077@news.erols.com… >> Can someone tell me if there is an age limit as to when a person can >> donate a kidney?  I  am 65 and have been told I am too old. Is this >> correct? Also can a cancer survivor (me) donate? >I don’t know if this is an UNOS regulation or if it is just the hospital I’m >listed with, but I was told the cutoff age for donors is sixty, although >they’ll take the donor’s health and the like into consideration. >As far as the cancer is concerned, I believe you need to be cancer-free for >ten years before they will consider you.   (And congrats on beating it, >btw!) >Mara

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<no…@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:3b7809a7.6536077@news.erols.com… > Can someone tell me if there is an age limit as to when a person can > donate a kidney?  I  am 65 and have been told I am too old. Is this > correct? Also can a cancer survivor (me) donate?

I don’t know if this is an UNOS regulation or if it is just the hospital I’m listed with, but I was told the cutoff age for donors is sixty, although they’ll take the donor’s health and the like into consideration. As far as the cancer is concerned, I believe you need to be cancer-free for ten years before they will consider you.   (And congrats on beating it, btw!) Mara

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