Andrew Stevens’ only chance at survival is a new set of lungs, but his wife said the VA isn’t helping him get that transplant in Washington.
SEATTLE — After a Washington veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps returned from his deployment in Iraq, he was diagnosed with a type of cancer that doctors said was caused by harmful chemicals he was exposed to overseas.
Unfortunately, the chemotherapy 44-year-old Andrew Stevens later received caused his lungs to fail. This year, his medical team put him on a life support machine called Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, or ECMO, “which is kind of like external lungs for the body,” said
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