Six months after Albert Khoury's surgery, the lungs are working well and he has no signs of cancer in his body.
Doctors announced Thursday they had successfully performed a double lung transplant on a patient with terminal lung cancer, giving new hope to others who also have advanced stages of the deadly disease.
"Lung transplantation for lung cancer is extremely uncommon with few cases reported," Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery at Northwestern Medicine, said in a The few such procedures in the past have not been successful, but since then, advances have allowed doctors to better understand cancer's spread.
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