Among patients with stage IA non-small cell lung cancer, long-term survival was better with lobectomy or segmentectomy vs.

The lungs that Dr. Ankit Bharat took out of Tadd Crosslin, a 49-year-old father of twins, were marred with billions of cancer cells. They were “perhaps the most diseased that we’ve ever seen,” said ...

Background: Data about health-related quality of life (QOL) after surgical treatment for lung cancer are limited ... at-risk for poorer QOL after surgery.

W. Awori Hayanga, MD, MPH, professor of thoracic surgery, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University. "Lung transplantation is not always a durable solution because of ...

Findings were similar for lung cancer-specific survival, according to the authors. For early-stage NSCLC, lobar r ...

Medicare beneficiaries with emphysema who received an endobronchial valve vs. lung volume reduction surgery faced elevated ...

Last year, surgeons performed 148 lung transplants, the most in a single year since Northwestern's lung transplant program ...

The most common diseases requiring thoracic surgery include lung cancer, chest trauma, esophageal cancer, emphysema, and lung transplantation.

Kenny et al reported little change in QOL among disease-free survivors 4 months to 2 years after surgery ... to determine how nurses can support lung cancer survivors in the months to years ...