Lung cancer surgery is the primary form of treatment for most cases of early stage lung cancer. Surgery is particularly effective in cases where the tumor hasn’t spread. It can help treat the cancer, ...

Lung resection after initial nonoperative treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) was safe and led to significantly improved survival in select patients previously treated with nonoperative ...

Multidisciplinary evaluation, including thoracic surgical consultation, is crucial for oligometastatic NSCLC patients to optimize treatment strategies. Lung surgery for oligometastatic NSCLC shows ...

Individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are already compromised, so the prospect of removing all or part of a lung is especially daunting for these patients if they are also ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Thoracic surgery — the treatment of diseases of the lungs, airways and chest — has changed more in the last 30 years than in the century before it. For patients, that evolution now means smaller ...

For lung resection candidates, adding cardiopulmonary exercise testing parameters to basic clinical data and pulmonary function tests did not yield a significant improvement in machine learning models ...

Surgery is a common treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), particularly when the disease is detected early and the tumor is small and is only in one part of the lung. For small cell lung ...