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Surgical equipment is displayed inside the inside Keesler Medical Center at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, December 21, 2021. The equipment was used by Keesler's Pulmonary Critical Care Clinic to perform the first airway stent procedure in the Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Seth Haddix)

Dec. 22, 2021

Giving another breath of hope

KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE — Two patients, each with metastatic lung cancer, were rushed to Keesler’s Operating Room, struggling to breathe with tumors constricting their airways.Maj. Derrell Nettlow, 81st Healthcare Operations Squadron Pulmonary critical care physician, was called to perform the Air Force’s first airway stent procedure to give them the ability to breathe.“I

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