668120login-checkFirst Double-Lung Transplants in Advanced Lung Cancer |
By Janet Dyer
Double lung transplant isn’t new; in fact, it’s more common than single lung transplant. But recently surgeons at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago crossed a frontier in the lung transplantation. Two patients with stage 4 lung cancer, Albert Khoury and Tannaz Ameli, are alive and well after successful double transplantation.
The concept of using the procedure in patients with advanced cancer was one of the lessons the Northwestern surgeons took away from the COVID pandemic. Read more in Managed Healthcare Executive.
668120login-checkFirst Double-Lung Transplants in Advanced Lung Cancer |