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Anonymous21 days ago

Amy Piccioli, a 41-year-old mother of three diagnosed with stage 4 colorectal cancer in 2024, was declared to have "no evidence of disease" three months after receiving a living-donor liver transplant at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. Her case highlights both a troubling surge in colorectal cancer among younger adults and a transplant revolution backed by the landmark TRANSMET trial, which showed 73% five-year survival for transplant recipients versus 9% for chemotherapy alone.