Among patients with stage IA non-small cell lung cancer, long-term survival was better with lobectomy or segmentectomy vs.

For patients with stage IA NSCLC, lung resections, including lobectomy and segmentectomy, are associated with improved long-term survival compared with wedge resection.

and colleagues analyzed data from 32,340 patients undergoing lung resection surgery for stage IA NSCLC from 346 U.S.

For early-stage NSCLC, lobar resection has been the gold standard since 1995 with publication of the LCSG trial. Given that many people do not meet criteria or cannot tolerate the procedure, however, ...

New research presented at the 2025 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting reveals that anatomic lung resections, ...

New research presented at the 2025 Society of Thoracic Surgeons STS Annual Meeting reveals that anatomic lung resections such ...

[120] Another group reported resection outcomes of 219 patients with stage IA lung cancer, with 117 treated with lobectomy, 60 with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) wedge resection ...

Research at the 2025 STS Annual Meeting indicates anatomical lung resections such as lobectomy are linked to improved survival rates in early-stage NSCLC. Data analysis from over 32,000 patients shows ...