Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TUPELO — With more lung cancer cases being detected via both incidental findings and early screenings, robotic-assisted surgery ...

A Tulane surgeon performed the first lung resection in Louisiana, Arkansas or Mississippi using robotic-assisted technology ...

People with operable non-small cell lung cancers may fare better over the next few years by receiving immunotherapy treatments before and after surgery instead of only before surgery, according to a ...

Results from a Phase III clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that patients with lung cancer who received an immunotherapy drug, nivolumab, along with standard ...

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, shedding light on the most common cause of cancer diagnoses and death in the United States. The National Cancer Institute estimates more than 226,000 patients ...

One reason is that too few clinicians raise the issue with their patients. New research published in the American Journal of Surgery indicates that only about 1 in 6 patients eligible for lung cancer ...

Early-stage lung cancer was detected as a nodule during a routine check-up, initially deemed non-threatening. The patient chose robot-assisted Da Vinci surgery for its reduced physical burden, despite ...

Lung cancer, a disease once considered a near-certain death sentence, has entered a transformative era. Advances in screening, genetic research, and minimally invasive surgeries are redefining ...

Lung wedge resection is surgery that removes a small, wedge-shaped piece of lung tissue. It can treat early stage lung cancer or help doctors diagnose suspicious lumps or shadows on the lungs, visible ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Surgery and stereotactic ablative radiotherapy conferred comparable 10-year survival among patients with ...

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 ...

TORONTO — Thirty-day mortality following lung cancer surgery has greatly decreased in the United States during the past decades, and not unexpectedly, it is lowest in high-volume hospitals, according ...