Quick Hits: Lung Removed, Cleaned, & Returned to Body

A recent Good News Network article discussed a revolutionary medical treatment that could very likely change the way cancer is treated. A team at Beilinson Hospital in Israel successfully removed a man’s lung, cleaned it of cancerous tumors, and implanted it back into his chest, with no need for a transplant. The patient, in his mid-40s, had a tumor blocking the main artery to his left lung, causing it to collapse.