"California Doctor Receives Rare Lung-Liver Transplant at Northwestern Memorial Hospital"
TL;DR
Dr. Gary Gibbon, a pulmonologist diagnosed with advanced stage lung cancer, received a groundbreaking double lung and liver transplant after seeing an NBC News report about the procedure. Northwestern Medicine's DREAM Program pioneered the novel approach, successfully performing more than 30 lung transplants for advanced lung cancer patients. Despite initial complications, the complex surgery was a success, leaving Gibbon cancer-free and highlighting the potential for more transplant centers to perform similar complex surgeries.
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- California doctor gets life-saving lung transplant after NBC News report NBC News
- Doctor with lung cancer gets unprecedented liver, double-lung transplant from Northwestern hospital Chicago WLS-TV
- California doctor gets new lungs and liver at Northwestern after damaging treatment for advanced cancer Chicago Sun-Times
- Northwestern Medicine patient undergoes first double lung-liver transplant in US — and more WGN TV Chicago
- California doctor with cancer gets rare lung-liver transplant in Chicago at Northwestern Memorial Hospital CBS Chicago
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