Wichita ? A Wichita woman who underwent a multi-organ transplant in Florida and was looking forward to returning to her home in Kansas died Sunday.

Sara Johnesee died of lymphoma, a type of cancer linked to the immune system. She was 25.

Lymphoma is common among people who have received an organ transplant or have weakened immune systems. Johnesee received a new stomach, liver, pancreas, spleen and large and small intestines at the University of Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital in July.

Johnesee had undergone several surgeries during childhood to correct congenital problems that made it impossible for food to follow a normal route through her body.

She had two major reconstructive stomach surgeries in the past five six years, before doctors and family members pinned their hopes on the rare multi-organ transplant.

Dave Johnesee said his daughter fought graft rejections and infections after the surgery, which left her in the intensive care unit until early December. A couple of weeks later, testing showed lymphoma. Sara Johnesee began chemotherapy just before Christmas but eventually developed pneumonia.

“She was such a fighter and had come so far in the transplant war that it really hurts to lose her to cancer,” her mother, Kathy Johnesee, wrote in an e-mail.