Female lung cancer survivors were ... All had received surgical resections via a thoracotomy. None received adjuvant therapy. Most survivors had at least 1 comorbid condition (Table 3).

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 ...

Allison Ciaccio had a respiratory illness that wouldn't go away. Repeated follow-ups found Stage I lung cancer.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The study analysed outcomes for more than 32,000 stage 1A NSCLC patients using data from the STS General Thoracic Surgery ...

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

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