A nurse from LeClaire was the first lung-surgery patient to undergo a new procedure at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago.

CHICAGO — Claudia Donohue was on the operating table first thing in the morning. It wasn’t where she wanted to end up when she first learned she had lung cancer. When she saw the constellation of ...

Tufts student Billy Senopoulos, plagued by Cystic Fibrosis since birth, is very ill. Senopoulos, 27, needs a complicated lung transplant, which requires finding two separate suitable donors willing to ...

Jimmy Howard was tired of going under the knife by the time he found out he might need another surgery. Howard, 69, had already undergone several vascular procedures when he experienced a cardiac ...

It’s hard for me to believe that on Friday, I had the upper lobe of my cancerous left lung removed, went home the next day, and am back to work, Tuesday. It shows what medical device and ...

Oh, if she could just say something that would catch people's attention, hook them into thinking about donating a fifth of their lungs to her 19-year-old son. Erik will die without it, said his mother ...

SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio doctor is warning all smokers about the dangers of tobacco and what they should do to make sure they don’t develop lung cancer. November marks Lung Cancer Awareness Month.