Robotic surgery allowed doctors at Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital to remove an entire lung out of a one-and-a-half inch incision in the chest of a patient with stage 3 lung cancer. The ...
Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) is a treatment for end-stage lung disease caused by emphysema. Emphysema is a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that causes shortness of breath ...
Surgery that removes only a portion of one of the five lobes that comprise a lung is as effective as the traditional surgery that removes an entire lobe for certain patients with early-stage lung ...
It can be surprising to learn that lung cancer can develop in people who have never smoked. In fact, up to 20% of lung ...
Individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are already compromised, so the prospect of removing all or part of a lung is especially daunting for these patients if they are also ...
Multidisciplinary evaluation, including thoracic surgical consultation, is crucial for oligometastatic NSCLC patients to optimize treatment strategies. Lung surgery for oligometastatic NSCLC shows ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Lung cancers that are detected during X-ray for other conditions, so-called "incidentalomas," tend to be smaller and less likely to require removal of a lung, according to ...
As a nonsmoker lung cancer hasn't been a concern of mine, but I recently heard it can affect people who have never smoked. If someone is concerned ...
Post-treatment lung health is a longitudinal survivorship issue; nonregenerative parenchymal loss, radiation fibrosis, and ...
Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago were able to keep a critically ill patient alive for 48 hours after removing both of his lungs, the hospital reported last week. The patient, a 33-year-old ...