A second person has been cured of terminal lung after a rare double lung transplant. Tannaz Ameli, 64, of Minneapolis, , has now been declared cancer free after receiving the surgery at Northwestern Medicine in June. She joins Albert Khoury, 54, who successfully received the operation at Northwestern in 2021.Lung transplants for patients at this stage would usually be a 'complete 'no-no', , Northwestern's chief of thoracic surgery, said. But, luckily for Mr Khoury and Ms Ameli, their cancer did not spread beyond their lungs.
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