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At-Home Dialysis Restores Quality of Life

A mother and daughter choose at-home hemodialysis for their kidney failure treatment.

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Heart Transplant Allows Mom to Dance at Son’s Wedding

“I’m just so grateful for this gift of life.”

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Mom Gives Birth to Twins on Her 2-Year Cancer-Free Anniversary

Exactly two years after she was declared cancer-free, Shelly was induced to deliver her babies.

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Barbara Le Breton, with shoulder length white hair and and wearing a black blouse and pink jacket, has her arms around two boys at a table. A girl smiles in the background. There is a birthday cake on the table in front of them with candles shaped like "74."
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Proton Therapy: Precision in Cancer Treatment

After an esophageal cancer diagnosis, a breast cancer survivor faced treatment limitations.

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Wendy Hennessey is pictured sitting on the steps of a pale yellow Victorian style house. She has long brown hair and wears a plaid coat and knee-high black boots.
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A More Precise Treatment for Eye Cancer

When signs of a rare eye cancer were found during an eye exam, Wendy chose proton therapy as treatment.

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A Golfer Plays Through Prostate Cancer Treatment

Learn Sidney’s story.

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Patricio Collera wearing a dark blue sweatshirt and yellow surgical mask, with his lung-liver transplant surgeons on either side, who wear white lab coats and yellow surgical masks.
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First Lung-Liver Transplant Performed at Northwestern Medicine

A rare procedure saves former nurse’s life.

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