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.

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

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

For early-stage NSCLC, lobar resection has been the gold standard since 1995 with publication of the LCSG trial. Given that many people do not meet criteria or cannot tolerate the procedure, however, ...

For patients with advanced emphysema, EBV is associated with higher mortality and morbidity compared with LVRS.

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, ...

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

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

Doctors at Northwestern Medicine say medical innovations helped them achieve two medical milestones last year: the largest ...