Wedge resection surgery is a procedure to remove a triangular-shaped section of your lung. Your provider may recommend this surgery to treat non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). You may also have a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “We believe that these results are quite powerful and informative,” Christopher Seder, MD, thoracic surgeon at ...

Thinking Differently in Global Health in Oncology Using a Diagonal Approach: Harnessing Similarities, Improving Education, and Empowering an Alternative Oncology Workforce Surgery continues to be the ...

Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Biomarkers in Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an Enigma The authors retrospectively compared the outcome of medically compromised ...

LOS ANGELES—January 25, 2025 New research presented at the 2025 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting reveals that anatomic lung resections, such as lobectomy and segmentectomy, are ...

Lung cancer is a common and serious type of cancer that is considered to be the most common type of cancer to affect people worldwide. In fact, at the end of 2018, about 2.1 million new cases of lung ...

A segmentectomy is a surgical procedure that removes one of the ten anatomic segments of a lung. It requires some dissection of the artery, vein, and/or airway structures of that segment, and the ...

Sublobar resection was on par with lobectomy for non-small cell lung cancer tumors with a diameter of 2 cm or less, according to results presented at the recent World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC).

The increased detection of small-sized peripheral non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has renewed interest in sublobar resection in lieu of lobectomy. We conducted a multicenter, noninferiority, phase ...

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, ...