21.   It was too late for a new liver to save Payton, too late for chemotherapy and radiation to matter much.

22.   Jaclyn, a ninth-grader, said she can already see and feel the difference of her new liver.

23.   Liver transplant patients are usually severely debilitated by the time they receive new livers, making recuperation from the operation slow and difficult.

24.   Mantle was still alive, but he was suffering from cancer of the liver and would not leave the hospital without a new liver.

25.   McKittrick was diagnosed with cancer of the bile duct in mid-January, when it was also determined he would need a new liver.

26.   Not only would Mantle require drugs to prevent his body from rejecting a new liver, but he would also have to continue chemotherapy for his cancer.

27.   One patient has lived more than a decade with both HIV and a new liver.

28.   Only when Mantle learned Monday that his cancer had spread throughout his organs, even seizing his heart and his new liver, did he give that fight up.

29.   Others were upset that Mantle was able to receive a new liver after a well-documented history of alcohol abuse dating to his playing days.

30.   Other research, still being tested in animals, seeks to grow a whole new liver from a batch of cells.