Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “We believe that these results are quite powerful and informative,” Christopher Seder, MD, thoracic surgeon at ...

Lung resection after initial nonoperative treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) was safe and led to significantly improved survival in select patients previously treated with nonoperative ...

* Actual value in liters as % predicted not available. FEV 1: Forced expiratory volume in 1 s; Postop: Postoperation; Preop: Preoperation. There is a poor prognosis for lung cancer when surgery is not ...

Lung cancer surgery is the primary form of treatment for most cases of early stage lung cancer. Surgery is particularly effective in cases where the tumor hasn’t spread. It can help treat the cancer, ...

Multidisciplinary evaluation, including thoracic surgical consultation, is crucial for oligometastatic NSCLC patients to optimize treatment strategies. Lung surgery for oligometastatic NSCLC shows ...

A segmentectomy is a surgical procedure that removes one of the ten anatomic segments of a lung. It requires some dissection of the artery, vein, and/or airway structures of that segment, and the ...

Sublobar resection was on par with lobectomy for non-small cell lung cancer tumors with a diameter of 2 cm or less, according to results presented at the recent World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC).

Riverside Health is introducing a new approach to lung-cancer care that allows doctors to diagnose and surgically remove suspicious lung nodules in a single visit, speeding up a process that ...

Researchers took both the learning curve of the new process and the COVID-19 pandemic into consideration. A new cost analysis found some evidence that the initial increased costs associated with robot ...