Lomu was first diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome, a rare and serious kidney disorder, at the end of 1996.

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Epogen's main use is to treat anemia in patients with kidney failure, also known as end-stage renal disease.

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Mr Adams said he had one kidney removed, but at the end of last year he was diagnosed with cancer and told he had six weeks to live.

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Another woman, in her eighties, with end-stage respiratory and kidney failure, had been in the unit for two weeks.

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At the end of 2002, 577 people in Scotland were on the waiting list for a kidney, 21 for a heart or heart and lungs and 18 for a liver.

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"There are growth plates at the end of the bones, " said Dr. Leslie Spry, a spokesman for the National Kidney Foundation.

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