The study from Holguin and colleagues, 1 employing the National Cancer Database (a
registry maintained by the American Cancer Society and the American College of …

Dr Stiles and colleagues 1 have conducted another outstanding study demonstrating that
the majority of patients undergoing sublobar resection receive an inadequate lymph node …

613 Letters to the Editor/European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery assessed
perioperative as well as long-term outcomes for clinical stage IA lung cancer patients who …

The article by Akamine et al.[1] published in this issue of the journal comes at a time when
the thoracic surgery community is questioning the optimal surgical treatment of early-stage …

After confirmation of the non-inferiority of sublobar resection in early-stage non-small-cell
lung cancer (NSCLC) in carefully selected populations in 3 randomized-controlled trials …

A landmark study by Ginsberg and colleagues 1 found that sublobar resection (SLR) is
associated with an increased risk of recurrence compared with lobectomy in patients with …

We now live in a world where trials demonstrate neither superiority nor tradeoffs in
comparing lobar vs sublobar resection for patients with a peripheral 2-cm node-negative …

We read with great interest the study by Handa et al.[1] entitled 'Complex segmentectomy in
the treatment of stage IA non-small-cell lung cancer', which assessed perioperative as well …

THOR are performed in those patients who would be fit enough to tolerate a lobectomy and
with peripheral, predominantly non–solid tumors smaller than 2 cm. 1 Compromise …

The JCOG0802/WJOG4607L and CALGB 140503 randomized non-inferiority phase III trials
probably were the beginning of the end of one of the biggest debates of the last decades in …