Lung transplants extend lives of sickest cancer patients better than standard treatment: study

Source WBEZ
Original Load Date July 8, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
Last Updated July 8, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
Original URL https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/2026/07/08/lung-cancer-study-transplants-extend-lives-cancer-patients-standard-treatment

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Patients with advanced lung cancer are far more likely to survive if they receive a lung transplant compared to patients who received a standard cancer treatment, a landmark study from Northwestern Medicine found. The medical community has long considered it too risky to transplant lungs into patie...