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DREAM (Double Lung Transplant and Registry Applied for Lung Limited Malignancies)
Coverage of DREAM (Double Lung Transplant and Registry Applied for Lung Limited Malignancies) in the Nexus archive.
- Rare transplant gives Stage 4 lung cancer patients a second chance at life — a Capitol Hill man is proof
David Peterson, a Stage 4 lung cancer patient, underwent a double lung transplant at Northwestern Medicine's DREAM program, the only U.S. hospital performing this treatment for such cases, after traditional therapies failed. The procedure, inspired by pandemic-era lung transplant techniques, saved his life.