In this remarkable interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian spoke with Dr. Gavin Wright about his thoughts on the JCOG0802 trial and why he prefers segmentectomy over lobectomy.
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January 8, 2026
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Gavin Wright and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian about Dr. Wright’s thoughts on the JCOG0802 trial and why he prefers segmentectomy over lobectomy.
January 8, 2026
A multidisciplinary panel of lung cancer experts, facilitated by the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the European Respiratory Society, developed practical recommendations for assessing patients’ fitness for curative intent treatments for lung cancer by formulating four population, intervention, comparison and outcomes (PICO) questions and s
January 8, 2026
This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated whether preprocedural fasting reduces the risk of witnessed pulmonary aspiration. Across 2,105 patients, aspiration was rare and not influenced by liberal vs restrictive fasting regimens (odds ratio 1.17, 95 percent CI 0.32–4.23).
December 23, 2025
In this study, the authors report the long-term outcomes of the randomized phase II NEOpredict-Lung trial, which evaluates short-course neoadjuvant nivolumab with or without the LAG-3 inhibitor relatlimab in resectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
December 18, 2025
In this exceptional interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Nasser Altorki and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian about the 10-year results from the JCOG0802 trial.
December 18, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Nasser Altorki and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian about the 10-year results from the JCOG0802 trial.
December 11, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Laurens Ceulemans, thoracic surgeon at the University Hospitals Leuven in Belgium, about lung volume reduction.
November 25, 2025
In this international randomized trial involving 2,124 thoracic surgery patients requiring one-lung ventilation, the authors compared high positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) with recruitment maneuvers (10 cm H2O) to standard low PEEP without recruitment (5 cm H2O).
November 20, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Randas Batista, cardiac surgeon and founder of Vilela Batista Heart Foundation, about the surgical treatment of Eisenmenger syndrome.