Craig Scherer became the first patient to receive a lung transplant through a new initiative at the Phoenix Mayo Clinic.

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A new lung transplant program at Mayo Clinic in Arizona is bringing renewed hope for patients battling advanced stage lung disease. On Monday, doctors gave one man a second chance ...

Phoenix-based Mayo Clinic in Arizona has added lung transplantation to its solid organ transplant program. A surgical team led by Jonathan D’Cunha, MD, PhD, surgical director of the Mayo Clinic in ...

Her first double lung transplant was in 2019, and the second surgery was in 2023. “It happened to me when I had COVID that we noticed a sharp decline,” Housman said of the second transplant ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Neoadjuvant immunotherapy with nivolumab plus chemotherapy before surgery in resectable non-small cell lung cancer increases five-year survival by about 10% ...

A month after a surgery that took place on Sunday, May 11, Ty McLain became the inaugural patient of VCU Health Hume-Lee Transplant Center’s new lung transplant program. “Last year, I couldn ...

In a study published by The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, patients who underwent lung surgery for oligometastatic disease had a median overall survival of 55.2 months versus 23.4 ...

BUCKS COUNTY, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- After decades of his lungs struggling, this Bucks County man has received a breath of fresh air. "I've always been on oxygen my whole life. Going to school ...

Adding immunotherapy to chemotherapy before surgery for patients with operable non-small cell lung cancer—the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide—improved long-term survival overall compared with ...

Los Angeles-based actor Jodi Long has joined the cast of Becky and Her Lung Transplant, at the 7th Annual Durango PlayFest. See who else is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.

The organ-transplant program at Banner-University Medical Center Tucson is regaining strength, signaled by its recent federal certification to offer adult lung transplants. Without a local lung ...

Latest medical research on lung disease. Learn about the symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema, and lung cancer along with the latest treatment information.