Double lung transplants now viable option with new technique

Gillespie, pictured here at his home with generations of family photos on May 23 (2024), underwent a double lung transplant in January (2024) after one lung was damaged by lung cancer and the other by Covid-19 in 2020. — TNS

For decades, double lung transplants were not considered a viable option for treating lung cancer.

“It had been done, but it had always failed,” said Northwestern Medicine thoracic surgery chief Dr Ankit Bharat in the United States.