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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “We found that among unfit early-stage lung cancer patients who were not candidates for full anatomic lobar ...

The recent presentation of the long-term results of the JCOG0802 phase 3 trial has sparked discussion within the international thoracic surgical community. Initial 5-year results in 2022 reported a ...

Some patients having surgery for early-stage lung cancer may no longer need to lose an entire lobe of their lung, new research shows. The study results are from a Phase 3 clinical trial sponsored by ...

A prospective phase II randomized clinical study of folic acid in the intervention of radiation esophagitis induced by concurrent chemoradiotherapy in lung cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract ...

It’s hard for me to believe that on Friday, I had the upper lobe of my cancerous left lung removed, went home the next day, and am back to work, Tuesday. It shows what medical device and ...

The lungs are a pair of spongy organs in your chest. The right lung is bigger than the left lung. Each lung is divided into smaller parts called lobes. The right lung has three lobes, and the left ...

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, ...

Dr. Nabil Rizk, chief of thoracic surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center, explains that segmentectomy is “just a little bit more of a refined way of treating cancers.” As surgical treatments ...