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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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