For patients with stage IA NSCLC, lung resections, including lobectomy and segmentectomy, are associated with improved long-term survival compared with wedge resection.
Among patients with stage IA non-small cell lung cancer, long-term survival was better with lobectomy or segmentectomy vs.
New research presented at the 2025 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting reveals that anatomic lung resections, such as lobectomy and segmentectomy, are associated with improved long-term ...
Both segmentectomy and wedge resection procedures are usually performed when a small cancer is found in a small area of the lung. A wedge resection is like a segmentectomy, but it is typically a ...
In routine practice, unadjusted 10-year overall survival (OS) for lobectomy reached 44.8%, while for segmentectomy it was 44.2%, and for wedge resection 41.4%, according to Christopher Seder ...