UCSF Lung Transplant Patient No. 1,000 Looks Ahead to More of the Good Life
In 2001, three-year survival for UCSF patients who had undergone lung transplantation was 50 percent. In 2021, it had reached 90 percent. And over the last 20 years, median survival has climbed from 3.5 years to 11.5 years.