Utah mom of five with stage 4 lung cancer undergoes surgery, is on transplant list

A Utah mom of five with Stage 4 lung cancer underwent surgery to have her right lung removed Thursday. She is now on a ...
Medscape

Lung Cancer Death Risk Reduced With VATS Over Open Surgery

A new meta-analysis provided high-quality evidence demonstrating that video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) significantly reduces the risk for death by 21% compared with open lobectomy in ...
Medical News Today

What recovery looks like after lung cancer surgery

The duration of recovery after lung cancer surgery can range from weeks to months, and is generally longer after open lung surgery compared to minimally invasive procedures. Recovery at home involves ...
Medical Xpress

Lung transplant dramatically improves survival for patients with terminal lung cancer, study finds

A landmark Northwestern Medicine study published in JAMA suggests lung transplantation can significantly extend survival in select patients with advanced lung cancer. In a study of patients with ...
Fred Hutch

Lung Cancer Surgery

Surgery is a common treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), particularly when the disease is detected early and the tumor is small and is only in one part of the lung. For small cell lung ...

Her second transplant surgery involved four organs at one go

Before she went into surgery, Elizabeth Wehrle of Montezuma in Iowa, United States, knew that doctors wanted to transplant four new organs into her body.