Sentences with phrase «underwent lung cancer surgery»

The GTSD data included 37,009 records for patients 65 years of age and older who underwent lung cancer surgery between 2002 and 2012.

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Along the same lines, Daniel Sessler, an anesthesiologist at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, is leading two randomized trials looking at whether nerve blocks added to general anesthesia reduce metastases in patients undergoing surgery to remove either breast or lung cancer.

Fewer than half of all patients who undergo surgery for lung cancer survive as long as 5 years.

People likely to have had high concentrations of vitamin D in their bodies had a far better chance of being alive and cancerfree 5 years after surgery for early - stage lung cancer than did people who probably carried little of the vitamin when they underwent surgery.

Overall, results also showed that it took a month and a half to more than 6 months for many patients to undergo surgery after an initial x-ray displayed signs of possible lung cancer.

Nicolas Faris, MDiv and Raymond Osarogiagbon, MBBS led a group of researchers from Baptist Cancer Center and the University of Memphis in Tennessee, who reviewed hospital records for all patients who underwent surgery for suspected lung cancer at Baptist Memorial Hospital between January 2009 and JuneCancer Center and the University of Memphis in Tennessee, who reviewed hospital records for all patients who underwent surgery for suspected lung cancer at Baptist Memorial Hospital between January 2009 and Junecancer at Baptist Memorial Hospital between January 2009 and June 2013.

Patients undergoing surgery for lung cancer may wait too long to receive treatment, and too many patients skip vital diagnostic steps that are needed to help determine the best possible treatment, according to an article in the August 2015 issue of The Annals of Thoracic Ssurgery for lung cancer may wait too long to receive treatment, and too many patients skip vital diagnostic steps that are needed to help determine the best possible treatment, according to an article in the August 2015 issue of The Annals of Thoracic SurgerySurgery.

«This technology [stereotactic body radiation] has been used successfully in both primary and metastatic lung and liver cancers, notably for patients who could not otherwise undergo surgery, with local control rates in excess of 90 percent» says Gan.

Although Greg Klawitter underwent surgery for lung cancer at the University of Chicago Medicine thirteen years ago, the retired Chicago police officer hasn't forgotten the thoracic surgeon who saved his life.

The work that garnered the honor, «An analysis of the risk and benefit of neoadjuvant chemotherapy among patients undergoing surgery for non-small cell lung cancer,» examined data from more than 134,000 patients in the National Cancer Database to assess the impact of neoadjuvant therapy on perioperative outcomes, as well as long - term surcancer,» examined data from more than 134,000 patients in the National Cancer Database to assess the impact of neoadjuvant therapy on perioperative outcomes, as well as long - term surCancer Database to assess the impact of neoadjuvant therapy on perioperative outcomes, as well as long - term survival.