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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

New research presented at the 2025 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting reveals that anatomic lung resections ... 1A NSCLC patients using data from the STS General Thoracic Surgery ...

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