Lung - Cancer
The recent CheckMate 816 trial indicated that neoadjuvant chemo-immunotherapy provided limited local control in stage II–III resectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This trial evaluated the hypothesis that incorporating radiotherapy into the treatment plan—involving carboplatin...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Timur Kyashif, a cardiac resident at Jena University Hospital in Jena, Germany, about the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac,...
In this noteworthy interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Jeffrey Velotta, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine in San Francisco,...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Jeffrey Velotta, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine in San...
This Society of Thoracic Surgeons Expert Consensus Documents provides updated, multidisciplinary guidance on the multimodal management of pleural mesothelioma (PM). The expert panel emphasizes that surgical resection should only be...
A multidisciplinary team led by Bob Kiaii at the London Health Sciences Centre in Ontario, Canada, has reportedly completed the world’s first robotic performance of a specific aortic valve replacement...
The authors present a video of a robotic assisted pulmonary segmentectomy of the anterior segment of the right upper lobe (S3) for a metastatic nodule. The patient was a 67-year-old...
The patient was a 71-year-old woman with a bronchiectatic left upper lobe lesion that was under surveillance. She had a biopsy-proven adenocarcinoma in the left lower lobe, normal pulmonary function...
In a single institution review comparing acute outcomes for men and women after surgery for non-small cell lung cancer, men were found to have an increased risk of postoperative cardiac...
Forty-nine patients with limited metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (three or fewer metastatic sites) who did not progress on initial systemic therapy were randomized to surgery or RT vs standard...
Patient Care and General Interest The Boston Marathon race director, who has run the marathon 46 straight times, underwent triple bypass surgery last Friday at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital. A...
This analysis of the National Cancer Database included over 2000 eligible patients resected with N2 disease who did not receive induction therapy. The addition of radiotherapy to postoperative chemotherapy did...
This video demonstrates a posterolateral thoracotomy. The authors detail the procedure in a step-by-step fashion, using diagrams and surgical video to illustrate key technical elements. This video also shows a...




