Utah mother of five undergoes rare double-lung transplant for Stage 4 cancer
Kelsey Flake, a 39-year-old Utah mother of five and non-smoker, is undergoing a rare double-lung transplant at Northwestern Medicine for Stage 4 lung cancer. The procedure, part of the DREAM Program, offers a potential survival boost for patients with lung-confined malignancies who have exhausted other treatments. While early data shows high one-year survival rates, medical experts caution that long-term outcomes and ethical considerations regarding organ allocation remain under scrutiny.