Northwestern Medicine doctors perform first ever double-lung transplant on lung cancer patient

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Northwestern Medicine doctors perform first ever double-lung transplant on lung cancer patient
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“I'm 54, I gotta go enjoy life now. This is the biggest chance I have. The biggest chance I got, ya know, to stay alive. Enjoy life,” Albert Khoury said.

Doctors with Northwestern Medicine are calling it a medical miracle.For the first time ever, they have successfully performed a double-lung transplant on a patient with terminal lungAlbert Khoury, 54, was diagnosed with lung cancer in early 2020 — despite never having been a smoker.

Eventually, it progressed to Stage Four — that is when he underwent the experimental surgery in September. "I'm 54, I gotta go enjoy life now. This is the biggest chance I have. The biggest chance I got, ya know, to stay alive. Enjoy life," Khoury said.

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