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, ...

LOS ANGELES -- Surgeries to remove small tumors in stage IA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) were associated with varying odds of long-term survival depending on the amount of lung removed, based on ...

Background: Total tubeless (TT) single-port thoracoscopic wedge resection is a novel minimally invasive surgical technique for treating peripheral pulmonary nodules. This study aims to evaluate its ...

Surgery may be underused in patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC), suggest the investigators of a recent study. 1 But when to operate? And what is the optimal surgical approach?

Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Biomarkers in Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an Enigma The authors retrospectively compared the outcome of medically compromised ...

LOS ANGELES—January 25, 2025 New research presented at the 2025 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting reveals that anatomic lung resections, such as lobectomy and segmentectomy, are ...

Thinking Differently in Global Health in Oncology Using a Diagonal Approach: Harnessing Similarities, Improving Education, and Empowering an Alternative Oncology Workforce The following represents ...

Lung cancer is a common and serious type of cancer that is considered to be the most common type of cancer to affect people worldwide. In fact, at the end of 2018, about 2.1 million new cases of lung ...