Stephanie Worrel discusses the use of lobectomy in lung cancer patients over 75 years old, and the impact robotic lobectomy has on outcomes.
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Cancer
July 8, 2014
This is an interesting opinion piece about misplaced fears on the part of physicians and patients/families regarding the dangers of radiation exposure as part of diagnostic imaging.
July 4, 2014
To illustrate the potential need for regional quality improvement efforts in thoracic surgery, the authors conducted a study of lung resection in Washington state using a discharge database including nearly 8,500 pts over a 12-year period. Inpatient mortality decreased over time but there was no change in the incidence of prolonged length of stay.
July 1, 2014
This single institution retrospective study compared outcomes for lobectomy and segmentectomy using propensity score matching. For 312 pts in each group, there was no difference in logoregional or overall recurrence rates. Operative mortality rates were similar for segmentectomy and lobectomy (1.2% vs 2.5%). 5-year surival rates were also similar
July 1, 2014
This randomized trial of high risk patients with small clinial stage I cancers randomized pts to sublobar resection with or without adjuvant brachytherapy. The median follow-up for 222 pts was 4.4 years. 3 year survival was identical (71%) between the groups. There was no difference in time to local recurrence. Brachytherapy did not significantly
July 1, 2014
In this randomized trial involving195 pts from 30 centers, pts underwent chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery or surgery alone for stage I or II esophageal cancer. The median follow-up was 94 months. 80% of pts had clinical stage II disease. R0 resection rate and 3-year survival were similar between the groups. Induction therapy was associated w
June 30, 2014
Shanda Blackmon, Daniel Boffa, Farhood Farjah, and Gaetano Rocco discuss lung cancer screening at the 2014 STS Annual Meeting.
June 26, 2014
Joseph Shrager, Chief of the Stanford Division of Thoracic Surgery, discusses the process of establishing a lung cancer screening program.
June 26, 2014
Although lung cancer is common in the elderly population, little information specific to this population is available to inform healthcare practitioners. The EORTC, in collaboration with the International Society of Geriatric Oncology, released a concensus statement in 2010 on this topic. Since then a number of related studies have been published.
June 25, 2014
In this study presented by Dr. Joshua A. Roth recently at the ASCO meeting, they used a model to forecast the 5-year results of implementation of a screening program (as suggest the NLST, age older than 55 with at least 30 pack-years of smoking history) in comparison to no screening program.