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 ...

The reason that there are no skeletons at the wreck of the Titanic is basically because once the flesh of their bodies was ...

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 ...

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 ...