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 ...

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 ...

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?

Analysis of Potential Predictive Markers of Cetuximab Benefit in BMS099, a Phase III Study of Cetuximab and First-Line Taxane/Carboplatin in Advanced Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer We hypothesized that if ...

Thinking Differently in Global Health in Oncology Using a Diagonal Approach: Harnessing Similarities, Improving Education, and Empowering an Alternative Oncology Workforce Surgery continues to be the ...

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 ...

For patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the survival outcomes can be just as good with sublobar resection as with the more invasive lobar resection, suggests results from the ...

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 ...