Allison Ciaccio had a respiratory illness that wouldn't go away. Repeated follow-ups found Stage I lung cancer.

To do the surgery, the doctor makes a cut in your side about 6 inches below your armpit ... For a single lung transplant, the incision is made under the breast fold and towards the back in the right ...

The medical world is celebrating two innovative technologies Northwestern Medicine is using to help give patients a new ...

Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy is a pulmonary lobectomy procedure that is performed by a ... The procedure is performed with general anesthesia using a special endotracheal tube that allows ...

Out of all the diseases, I end up with lung cancer.” Portillo’s surgeon removed her lower lobe of her left lung, the only ...

Doctors at Northwestern Medicine say medical innovations helped them achieve two medical milestones last year: the largest ...

Current practice involves the lungs being left collapsed when using heart-lung machine during heart surgery, which is already ...

By Mallika Marshall, MD Click here for updates on this story BOSTON, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Patients with lung nodules often ...

McMenamin’s lung cancer was so small, that removing it with traditional surgery would be challenging, but Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston offered him a new option.