Keith Zafren, a 63-year-old from Lexington, Ky., who was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, is now cancer-free after undergoing a groundbreaking double-lung transplant at Northwestern Medicine. The surgery, part of the Double Lung Replacement and Multidisciplinary Care (DREAM) program, used innovative techniques to make donor lungs viable for transplant in a patient with rapidly progressing stage 4 lung cancer.Dr. Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery at the Canning Thoracic Institute, expressed, “Keith’s transplant demonstrates how far we can push our technologies to...
