Lung - Cancer
Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths, and low-dose computed tomography screening can reduce mortality for high-risk individuals. In 2021, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) expanded lung cancer screening (LCS) guidelines...
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...
Patient Care and General Interest A New Zealand woman with cystic fibrosis who is a lung transplant recipient prepares to compete in swimming, biking, and running events in the Australian...
Patient Care and General Interest Renowned former Formula 1 racing champion Niki Lauda recently underwent a lung transplant. The president of the West African College of Surgeons (WACS) urged the...
Patient Care and General Interest A woman developed a combination planner, record-keeping notebook, and journal to help her husband through his treatment for esophageal cancer, and other patients now use...
Patient Care and General Interest Cardiac surgical and cardiology societies weigh in as an advisory committee revisits the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services procedure volume requirements for transcatheter...
Patient Care and General Interest A 7-year-old girl who received a heart transplant as an infant is now competing in the Canadian Transplant Games, which are underway at the University...
This retrospective study of 328 patients undergoing resection for non-small cell lung cancer demonstrated that sarcopenia determined by psoas muscle mass on computed tomography was associated with increased postoperative complications...
Gilbert Massard of the Centre Hospitalier in Strasbourg, France, discusses difficult treatment decisions in lung cancer. He reviews the different treatment approaches for oligometastasis, ground glass opacities, and multiple primary...
This video demonstrates a robotic right upper lobectomy, performed using the Cerfolio method of port placement. All vessel and pulmonary divisions were performed using the Signia™ powered stapler (Medtronic, Dublin,...



