Using propensity score matching, patients with clinical stage I NSCLC who underwent either VATS lobectomy or stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) were compared for long-term outcomes. Among 37 matched pairs, tumor control at 3 years was twice as good for surgery (p=.0038), cancer-specific survival was 15 percentage points better for surgery (p=.05
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Cancer
December 14, 2017
December 13, 2017
As many will recall, world chess champion Garry Kasparov was defeated by IBM's Deep Blue computer in 1997. Now machine-learning algorithms have bested trained pathologists in differentiating between benign and malignant changes in sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer patients. We can expect to see increasing involvement of AI in pathology as well
December 13, 2017
Liquid biopsies have long held promise for diagnosis, treatment selection, and surveillance of lung cancer patients. This articles summarizes results of two studies involving highly precise measurement of tumor mutational burden. A burden of 16-fold or greater was associated with improved overall survival with immunotherapy (atezolizumab) compared
December 8, 2017
Patient Care
US states that implemented policies for screening newborns for critical congenital heart disease have seen reductions in infant cardiac deaths compared to states that didn’t implement screening.
December 7, 2017
Herbert Decaluwé of University Hospital Leuven in Belgium discusses complications during video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.
December 1, 2017
Patient Care
November 27, 2017
Newspaper and prime time TV advertisements are beginning in the US today that detail the medical toll that smoking exacts on its victims. The ads are paid for by big tobacco based on a court order from 2006 that has finally survived the appeal process. A spokesperson for one of the companies stated that they hope to "develop less risky tobacco prod
November 20, 2017
This video shows a five-port technique for robot-assisted resection of hilar lung cancer.
November 17, 2017
Patient Care
November 15, 2017
The authors describe their technique for an S1+2 segmentectomy, discussing the anatomical landmarks and variations that are key in this procedure.