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Cancer

February 18, 2026
This video demonstrates a rare right-sided approach for left main bronchial sleeve resection in a young patient with adenoid cystic carcinoma.
January 9, 2026
This video demonstrates a new approach for thymic pathologies using a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery with CO₂ insufflation technique.
January 8, 2026
A multidisciplinary panel of lung cancer experts, facilitated by the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the European Respiratory Society, developed practical recommendations for assessing patients’ fitness for curative intent treatments for lung cancer by formulating four population, intervention, comparison and outcomes (PICO) questions and s
November 24, 2025
This video illustrates a thoracoscopic segmentectomy of segments seven and eight of the left lower lobe for pulmonary adenocarcinoma in a patient with limited respiratory reserve, highlighting key anatomical steps and systematic lymph node dissection.
September 29, 2025
This video demonstrates a multiportal, robot-assisted left segmentectomy that successfully removed an adenocarcinoma in a 68-year-old patient.
September 10, 2025
CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Dr. Joel Dunning recently had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Jeffrey Velotta, thoracic surgeon at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, regarding his paper, Time to Surgery in Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Defining the Optimal Diagnosis-to-Resection Interval to Reduce Mortality.
July 28, 2025
This video demonstrates a right robotic-assisted upper lobectomy performed after neoadjuvant therapy.
July 3, 2025
This retrospective single-center study analyzed 143 patients who underwent chest wall resection and reconstruction from 2010–2023. Among these, 55.2 percent had lung cancer invading the chest wall, predominantly adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma.
June 30, 2025
This video demonstrates a step-by-step video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for an intrapericardial left pneumonectomy due to a centrally located lung tumor, highlighting key technical tips.
June 26, 2025
This study evaluated the impact of the interval between diagnosis and surgery on mortality in patients with early-stage non-small cell lunger cancer (NSCLC).

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