Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine successfully completed a double-lung transplant on a Minnesota woman who was battling cancer.
In 2017, at just 34 years old, Amanda "Mandy" Wilk initially suspected she had food poisoning. However, her lingering symptoms prompted further investigation, ultimately leading to her diagnosis of stage 4 colorectal cancer.By that time, the cancer had already metastasized to her liver, and doctors gave her an estimated two years to live.
"On June 3, she received new lungs and was discharged from Northwestern Memorial Hospital one week later on her 42nd birthday."Throughout my eight-year journey of battling cancer, the one thing I’ve always wanted to do was ‘ring the bell,’ signaling my completion of cancer treatment," said Wilk. "Many doctors told me I’d never be able to ring it, so when my lung transplant social worker made it happen on my birthday, there was no greater feeling.
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