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

A new surgical procedure in Israel could revolutionize the way cancers are treated.

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. 

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