During a lung segmentectomy or wedge resection, a surgeon will make small incisions on the chest and use minimally ... The incisions are closed with sutures and a drainage tube is typically left in ...

Lung transplant involves the removal of the damaged lung and replacement with a new healthy organ. To do the surgery, the doctor makes a cut in your side about 6 inches below your armpit. This cut is ...

Annual Meeting reveals that anatomic lung resections, such as lobectomy and segmentectomy, are associated with better long-term survival than wedge resection for patients with early-stage non ...

Annual Meeting reveals that anatomic lung resections, such as lobectomy and segmentectomy, are associated with improved long-term survival compared to wedge resection for patients with early-stage ...

NSCLC can involve surgery, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy, depending on the subtype and stage of cancer. Lung cancer survival rates have improved in recent years thanks to more ...

Despite the high incidence of brain metastasis after resection of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines do not recommend central nervous system (CNS) ...

An impactful study funded by the National Cancer Institute and led by researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (the U) shows that a personalized, clinic-aligned exercise ...

Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) has announced that its Opdivo (nivolumab) perioperative treatment regimen has been recommended by the European Medicines Agency’s human medicines committee for adults with ...