Lisa Schencker | (TNS) Chicago Tribune When traditional treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation fail, lung cancer can be a death sentence for many patients.That, however, may be changing, with Northwestern Medicine leading the way.Northwestern plans to begin regularly performing double lung transplants on patients with terminal lung cancer, after successfully transplanting lungs into two patients who would have otherwise died of the disease, the health system announced Wednesday.
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