Surgery is particularly effective in cases where the tumor hasn’t spread. It can help treat the cancer, improve outlook, and help patients live disease-free for a long time. In some cases of ...

New research presented at the 2025 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting reveals that anatomic lung resections, such as lobectomy and segmentectomy, are associated with improved long-term ...

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 ...

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 ...

For patients with stage IA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), lung resections, including lobectomy and segmentectomy, are associated with improved long-term survival compared with wedge resection, ...

Pulmonary function assessment is central to the safe and effective management of patients undergoing lung cancer resection. Preoperative evaluation combines spirometric measurements, diffusion ...

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 ...

An economic evaluation of palliation of dysphagia in esophageal cancer: Analysis of the TROG 03.01/NCIC ES.2 phase III study in advanced esophageal cancer in patients treated with radiotherapy versus ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who received a home-based exercise and self-management program after lung resection had more improved ...

AIIMS New Delhi doctors successfully performed a rare lung-preserving segmentectomy on a four-month-old baby with congenital ...