Lung - Cancer
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 Francisco, California, USA, and a...
This case report describes a 75-year-old patient with a centrally located squamous cell carcinoma extending from the carina to the right intermediate bronchus and the superior segment of the lower...
This Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database analysis found that postoperative chylothorax risk increases with the extent of lymph-node dissection during pulmonary resection. Although uncommon, chylothorax was associated...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Taj Mohammed Fiyaz Chowdhry, a consultant thoracic surgeon at Burjeel Specialty Hospital, Sharjah, UAE, about uniportal robotics in the...
High tumor mutational burden (TMB) predicts not only response to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) but also immune-related toxicity. In this single-center cohort of...
The Patient This video presents a detailed demonstration of right VATS segmentectomy of segments 7 and 8 of the lung. The patient is a sixty-four-year-old woman who is a current...
Spread through air spaces (STAS) is a recently identified marker that predicts worse outcomes in patients with lung cancer and is postulated to be one of the reasons why some...
A manuscript that wil certainly be discussed in lung MDT! The thought of a RCT in these earlier stages may be already in the mind of the sponsors… The authors...
This paper looked at the immunotherapy agent Durvalumab used in the perioperative period for resectable NSCLC. A total of 802 patients were enrolled in the study, of which 400 received...
This video demonstrates a thoracoscopic left superior segmentectomy. The patient is a fifty-eight-year-old woman with a superior segmental FDG avid lung nodule, concerning for pulmonary malignancy. The use of indocyanine...
At the 2023 EACTS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Editor in Chief Joel Dunning and CTSNet senior editors set out to interview the most knowledgeable CT surgeons from around the world. Stay...
A retrospective cohort analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database of 128,723 patients—who underwent pulmonary resection for non-small cell lung cancer between 2009 and 2019—identified 1,873...
This is a recorded session from the 2021 Birmingham Review Course. In this session, five expert thoracic surgeons came together to present on thoracic malignancy and its surgical solutions. In...




