Outcomes including recurrence and distant metastasis were similar between patients with “borderline operable” non–small cell lung cancer treated with stereotactic body radiation or wedge resection.

LOS ANGELES -- Surgeries to remove small tumors in stage IA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) were associated with varying odds of long-term survival depending on the amount of lung removed, based on ...

Expert Rev Resp Med. 2010;4(1):97-113. A report of 14,555 patients from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)'s registry who had lung resection for stage I or II lung cancer found a ...

Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Biomarkers in Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an Enigma The authors retrospectively compared the outcome of medically compromised ...

A thoracotomy is when a surgeon goes between your ribs to get to your heart, lungs, or esophagus to diagnose or treat an illness. It's a major operation, and doctors usually don’t use it if something ...

Background A 52-year-old woman whose last known pregnancy was 12 years before presentation was diagnosed with mixed trophoblastic tumor that included placental-site trophoblastic tumor, epithelioid ...

Overall, 27% of 2,008 patients with adenocarcinoma and 32% of 1,139 patients with squamous cell carcinoma underwent limited resection. Survival analyses, adjusted for propensity score by using inverse ...

Background: Few patients with lung metastases from colorectal cancer (CRC) are candidates for surgical therapy with a curative intent, and it is currently impossible to identify those who may benefit ...