15-year-old gets a heart and lung transplant in St. Louis

At the St. Louis Science Center, visitors often marvel at the exhibits. But when it comes to the wonders of science, those exhibits have nothing on a visiting teenager. Last fall, 15-year-old Spencer Kolman nearly died. "Frankly, when I saw him he was in extreme distress," said Dr. Pirooz Eghtesady, the Chief of Cardio-Thoracic surgery at St. Louis Children's hospital. It all started when he was just a toddler. As Spencer was learning his first words, his parents were learning the word Rhabdomyosarcoma and how to treat it. "Chemotherapy, surgery, radiation, more chemotherapy," recalled Spencer's dad Ken Kolman.

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