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Health Israel28. March 2020

Doctors Remove Lung from Cancer Patient, Clean It, and Place It Back in Body

A hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel has undertaken a groundbreaking surgery procedure on a lung cancer patient where, for the first time, the tumor was taken out, cleaned and put back in the patient’s body.

“The new method may change the way patients treat cancer in the world,” says Prof. Dan Arav, one of the surgeons and the director of the Heart and Chest department in Beilinson Hospital, where the operation took place. “Removing the diseased organ and removing the tumor, in some cases, is a development in scientific thinking. The idea has now been shown to be effective in lung cancer and may later be applied to other organs and other forms of cancer.”

The surgery involved the removal of the patient’s entire left lung, while the patient reportedly continued breathing during the duration of the operation through the right lung, according to Jewish Business News.

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Jewish Business News

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