The harm associated with lung cancer treatment include perioperative morbidity and mortality and therapy-induced toxicities in various organs, including the heart and lungs. Optimal treatment therefore entails a need for risk assessment to weigh the probabilities of benefits versus harm. Exercise testing offers an opportunity to evaluate a patient's physical fitness/exercise capacity objectivel...

Method A transbronchial biopsy was not able to clarify the cause of the foci. Two of the lung foci were removed by nonanatomical resection using video thoracoscopy. Histological examination of the material surprisingly revealed two typical carcinoid tumours (Ki67 index < 1%). As all the remaining foci were considered to be resectable the interdisciplinary tumour board recommended resection of a...

UNLABELLED We performed Ventilation/Perfusion scans for patients planned for thoracotomy with resection of the primary or metastatic lung tumors. We predicted the post-operative FEV1 (Forced Expiratory Volume in first second) using Differential Lung Analysis software. METHODS 34 patients were evaluated with Ventilation/Perfusion (V/Q) scans. Ventilation scan was performed with Tc-99m DTPA Aer...

We present a case of a large thymoma with invasion to the hilum of the lung and pleural dissemination. A 58-year-old woman was diagnosed with a type B2 thymoma, with suspected pericardium, pulmonary artery and left lung invasion and pleural metastasis (Masaoka-Koga stage IVb). A radical resection was planned after systemic chemotherapy. Through a median sternotomy, we resected the tumour, and a...

BACKGROUND Up to now, lobectomy, bilobectomy and pneumonectomy combined with extensive lymph node dissection have been regarded as the standard procedures for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In high-risk patients, however, limited resection (LR) has been attempted as a salvage procedure, and, recently, indication for LR has been extended to selected cases with early-stage NSCLC. MATERIAL ...

INTRODUCTION In recent years an increasing number of lung resections are being done because of the rising prevalence of lung cancer that occurs mainly in patients with limited lung function, what is caused with common etiologic factor - smoking cigarettes. OBJECTIVE To determine how big the loss of lung function is after surgical resection of lung of different range. METHODS The study was d...

PURPOSE Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) is found to be overexpressed in non-small cell lung cancer. The present study intended to evaluate the status of PD-L1 expression in patients with resection and recurrent lung adenocarcinoma. PATIENTS AND METHODS Matched resection and recurrent tumor samples were harvested from 65 lung adenocarcinoma patients. Immunohistochemistry was used to evaluate...

Background Second lung primaries occur at a rate of 2% per patient per year after curative resection for non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC). The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of fluorescence bronchoscopy using the Xillix((R)) LIFE-Lung Fluorescent Endoscopy System(TM) (LIFE-Lung system) in the surveillance of patients for second NSCLC primaries after resection or curative photod...