Cancer
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Aamir Amin, a cardiothoracic surgery resident at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, UK, about humanoid robots and artificial intelligence (AI) in surgery. Dr....
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Aamir Amin, a cardiothoracic surgery resident at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, UK, about humanoid robots and artificial...
A 69-year-old female smoker (82 pack years) was incidentally diagnosed with a left lung tumor. Imaging revealed an 18×18×10 mm lower-lobe nodule and a 24×30 mm hypermetabolic interbronchial lymph node...
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Expert Consensus Document (2026) on Addressing Definition and Practices of Sublobar Resection in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) provides evidence-based recommendations to guide the...
Friday, August 28, 2026 – Saturday, August 29, 2026 @ 7:00 am – 11:00 am – Thoracic Surgery Symposium: Malignant Esophagogastric Diseases August 28-29 | UT Southwestern Medical Center in...
At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, leading surgeons presented on and debated over segmentectomy vs wedge resection. Dr. Alessandro Brunelli, a consultant thoracic...
At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, leading surgeons presented on the management of early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Dr. Henrietta Wilson, a...
The authors present a robotic-assisted right bilobectomy performed for coexisting right upper lobe bronchiectasis and synchronous middle lobe adenocarcinoma, highlighting the management of dual pathology in the setting of dense...
Anatomic segmentectomy has emerged as an effective option for the management of early-stage lung cancer; however, the division of intersegmental parenchyma remains technically challenging. The authors describe and illustrate the...
At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, leading surgeons presented on challenges in the management of locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Dr....
This article presents a large, population-based study using UK primary care data to identify comorbid conditions associated with lung cancer in never-smokers (LCINS). Across two independent data sets (CPRD-GOLD and...
This article reviews recent efforts to evaluate the use of osimertinib, a third-generation EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), in the neoadjuvant setting for patients with resectable EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung...
This retrospective analysis compared three-port and four-port robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS) lobectomy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)(n=121, 2020–2021). Demographics, tumor characteristics, complications, and lymph node yields were similar between...





