Patient Stories
After disease claimed her lungs, Jennifer Julian begins a new life with expert help from the Interstitial Lung Disease Program.
Video-assisted surgery for lung cancer helped Bonnie Borton with pain reduction and recovery speed.
Stanford senior Molly Pam juggles a demanding daily regimen of drugs and airway-clearing therapies, along with course requirements and her responsibilities as one of the kitchen managers of the Terra House co-op.
Anabel Stenzel and her twin, Isabel Stenzel-Byrnes, were born with cystic fibrosis. Thanks to the donor families' selfless gifts, and the Stanford Hospital & Clinics Lung Transplant team, the twins now survive and thrive.
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Milton Gilmer, who lives on a 300-acre ranch in Montana with his wife, Donna, was able to undergo a heart-lung transplant at Stanford Hospital after his medical insurance removed its lifetime caps on coverage, as required under health care reform.