The last two posts reviewed the thoracic surgical thought that informs the decision-making process for a patient being evaluated for a lung cancer operation. If the cancer is potentially curable and pulmonary assessment shows the patient will have sufficient lung function after the operation it’s a go. But a third Read More
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In my previous blog I reviewed the concerns a surgeon has about the impact of a lung cancer operation—which costs a patient some of their breathing capacity—on a patient’s quality of life and how that determines the amount of lung that the surgeon can remove; quality of life after surgery Read More
There are multiple considerations inside his or her head when a thoracic surgeon operates on a patient with lung cancer. I want to focus on two of them: how will the surgeon perform the operation and what part—how much—of the lung will the surgeon remove? A surgeon can gain access Read More
