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A quarter of kidney donors are living: what you need to know to be a donor

  • Written by Holly Hutton, Nephrologist, PhD candidate at Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash University., Monash University
imagePeople undergoing dialysis would have a better quality of life if they had a kidney transplant.from shutterstock.com

At any one time, more than 1,400 Australians are on an organ transplant waiting list. The most common organs in demand are kidneys, followed by the liver and lung.

While the number of deceased organ donors in Australia has doubled...

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