During the last decade the role of minimally invasive surgery has been increased, especially with the introduction of the robotic system in the surgical field. The most important advantages of robotic system are represented by the wristed instrumentation and the depth perception, which can overcome the limitation of traditional thoracoscopy. However, some data still exist in literature with reg...

PURPOSE Surgical treatment of lung cancer in patients receiving hemodialysis carries a high risk because of poor cardiac function and a fragile electrolyte balance. Because the number of patients receiving hemodialysis has increased, the proportion of such patients with lung cancer is expected to rise. However, few studies have examined the results of surgery for lung cancer in hemodialysis pat...

In today's era when minimally invasive thoracoscopic surgery is the mainstream, symptom burden and quality of life lung cancer patients before unclear. We aimed to investigate preoperative self-reported with cancer. used MD Anderson Symptom Inventory-lung module (MDASI-LC) single-item scale (UNISCALE) collect patient-reported outcomes 396 from November 2017 2019 in 6 tertiary hospitals China. D...

BACKGROUND: Nutritional support, including oral nutrition supplements, is an integral part of anticancer treatment, during surgical treatment non-small cell lung cancer. Existing evidence for the effectiveness nutritional support in this cohort patients limited. We suggest that perioperative administration a balanced polymeric hypercaloric high-protein enteral formula by sipping as additional c...

PURPOSE We investigated current trends in lung cancer surgery and identified demographic and social factors related to changes in these trends. MATERIALS AND METHODS We estimated the incidence of lung cancer surgery using a procedure code-based approach provided by the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (http://opendata.hira.or.kr). The population data were obtained every year fro...

The last decade has seen the increasing application of bronchoscopic methods such as transbronchial needle aspiration in the staging of lung cancer as well as in the diagnosis of peripheral lung cancer, balloon dilatation using flexible bronchoscopy, development of new tracheobronchial stents to manage central airway obstruction, autofluorescence bronchoscopy for the early diagnosis of lung can...

Tumor-targeted therapies are playing growing roles in cancer research. The exploitation of these powerful therapeutic modalities largely depends on the discovery of tumor-targeting ligands. Phage display has proven a promising high throughput screening tool for the identification of novel specific peptides with high binding affinity to cancer cells. In the present study, we describe the use of ...

BACKGROUND Conventional radical surgeries for lung cancer incur a large amount of trauma, thoracoscopic surgeries can reduce trauma, and hopefully improve patients' postoperative quality of life (QOL). The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of thoracoscopic radical surgeries on quality of life of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS Use Quality of Life-Core 30 Qu...