Northwestern begins transplant trial for stage 4 lung cancer patients who have run out of traditional treatment options

Albert Khoury and Tannaz Ameli at the Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Feinberg Pavilion Wednesday. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Resigned to hospice care with stage 4 lung cancer, Tannaz Ameli was given a second chance at life last year.

“I begged my doctors in Minnesota to consider a lung transplant but they wouldn’t do it,” said Ameli, 64, a retired nurse from Minneapolis, Minn. “Luckily, my husband refused to give up and pushed for a second opinion.”