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for the first time; The success of double lung transplantation for a patient with lung cancer, and there are no indications so far that he will need other operations in a rare operation that heralds a breakthrough in treatments for fatal lung cancer.

In early 2020, Albert Khoury, a 54-year-old non-smoker, was diagnosed with stage 1 lung cancer, and Khoury did not respond to treatment, leading to stage 4 cancer by the end of the year.

On September 25, 2021, for a continuous period of seven hours, the patient underwent a rare double-lung transplant. Six months after the surgery, the doctors found that Khoury’s new lungs were working well, with no indications of a repeat operation.

Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery at Northwestern Medicine, said that lung transplantation for lung cancer patients is very uncommon when dealing with the disease, and Ankit added that what helped them do this operation was that Albert Khoury’s cancer was only in his chest, This increased their confidence in their ability to get rid of cancer during surgery and save his life.

Khoury needed to take immunosuppressive drugs after the transplant, which weakens the immune system so that the body does not reject the new transplanted organ, and now, six months after the operation, doctors have found that the new lungs are working well.

It is worth noting that lung cancer causes many deaths around the world, which may reach nearly three times that of breast cancer, with the incidence of lung cancer reaching about 1 in 16 people diagnosed in their lifetime.

So the success of this transplant is an excellent step towards saving lives, and in the end we wish all cancer patients to feel what Khoury felt when he said: “You haven’t seen that smile on my face in over a year, but now I can’t stop smiling.”

We recommend that you read our article on the symptoms of lung cancer, to find out what symptoms may appear when you have lung cancer, and therefore speak with your doctor immediately to avoid the development of the disease.