Lung Cancer - Surgery

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Which Extent of Surgical Resection Thoracic Surgeons Would Choose if They Were Diagnosed With an Early-Stage Lung Cancer: A European Survey

February 21, 2024 | Mujtaba MubashirGold Contributor

This study surveyed 123 thoracic surgeons and posed several questions asking which surgical resection they would prefer if they themselves were diagnosed with several variations of lung cancer size and location. Interestingly, despite two recently...

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STS Expert Consensus Document (2026) on Addressing Definition and Practices of Sublobar Resection in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

July 29, 2026 | Akshay PatelSilver Contributor

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...

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Post-Induction Robotic Left Lower Lobectomy in a Patient With a Previous S9–S10 Left Segmentectomy

July 6, 2026 | Alessia Caputo…

The clinical case presented in this video concerns a 67-year-old female patient who came to the authors’ attention in 2021 after undergoing a computed tomography (CT) scan that revealed the...

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Evaluation and Management of N2+ Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: An Interview With Dr. Philip Linden

June 5, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

At the 2026 American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Annual Meeting, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief, Joel Dunning, a cardiothoracic surgeon at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, UK, spoke with Dr. Philip...

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Hybrid VATS Right Upper Lobectomy With En Bloc Chest Wall Resection and Thoracoscopic Management of Major Stapler Injury

June 1, 2026 | José Yaryura Montero…

The authors present the case of a 71-year-old female former smoker who was referred for persistent right dorsal thoracic pain. Computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) scans revealed...

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VATS Lobectomy Is Associated With Greater Recurrence-Free Survival Than SBRT for Clinical Stage I Lung Cancer

December 14, 2017 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

Using propensity score matching, patients with clinical stage I NSCLC who underwent either VATS lobectomy or stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) were compared for long-term outcomes. Among 37 matched pairs, tumor...

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Intraoperative Complications in VATS

December 7, 2017 | Herbert Decaluwe

Herbert Decaluwé of University Hospital Leuven in Belgium discusses complications during video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). He presents a 2015 review of VATS complications at six European centers, discussing elements that...

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In Global News: Heart Transplant 50th Anniversary and Making a Cheaper Robot

December 1, 2017 | Claire Vernon

Patient Care December 3rd is the 50th anniversary of the first human heart transplantation, and the occasion is being commemorated with an event in Cape Town and writing about the...

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Five-on-a-Dice Port Technique for Robot-Assisted Right Upper Lobectomy for Hilar Lung Cancer

November 20, 2017 | Min Kim…

This video demonstrates the case of a 54-year-old woman with a 3.5 cm hilar mass abutting the main pulmonary artery, and located between the posterior ascending and superior segmental arteries....

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Thoracoscopic Right Apicoposterior Segmentectomy

November 15, 2017 | Dominique GossotBronze Contributor…

S2 and S1+2 segmentectomies are frequently indicated, as the location of a tumor or a nodule in S2 or at the border between S2 and S1 is not unusual. Preserving...

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Surgery for Stage IIIa N2 Disease

November 13, 2017 | Leanne Harling (Ashrafian)Silver Contributor…

Filmed at the 2016 EACTS Annual Meeting in Barcelona, Spain, Leanne Harling of Imperial College in London, UK, moderates a discussion on the role of surgical therapy for N2 lung...

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Surgery For T4 Tumors

November 9, 2017 | Federico Venuta

Federico Venuta of the Sapienza University of Rome in Italy discusses surgical reconstruction techniques following resection of T4 lung cancer tumors. He focuses on surgical approaches for tumors that invade...

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Serum Biomarkers May Prognosticate Recurrence in Node-Negative, Non-Small Cell Lung Cancers Less Than 4 Centimeters

October 31, 2017 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

In this single institution study, the authors screened biorepository materials obtained from patients undergoing resection for early stage cancer. They wished to identify serum markers related to early recurrence. A...

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