Yovana Portillo felt stunned that she had lung cancer because she never smoked. But she hopes people realize that lung cancer ...

Portillo’s surgeon removed her lower lobe of her left lung, the only location where they found cancer. Doctors diagnosed her as Stage 1 and the surgery removed it entirely. Portillo met with an ...

“So, they immediately set me up for surgery and they removed the lower lobe of my right lung, and that way they got lymph nodes with it as well," said Ritenour. Now, at 68 years old, Ritenour is ...

SurvivorNet asked some of the leading surgeons in the country to help explain the options for lung cancer surgery. There are several types of surgery for lung cancer, and the decision about which is ...

My cancer was caught at stage one and I had the top lobe of my lung removed. Karen A. I got screened last week ... This is due to early detection that only required surgery and no additional ...

People remind us that the octogenarian pope lives with one less lung lobe, removed at the age of 21 ... In the mid-1960s, Paul VI’s prostate surgery also made headlines: the Vatican at the ...

For patients with advanced emphysema, endobronchial valve placement (EBV) is associated with higher mortality and morbidity ...