Cancer is considered metastatic when it has spread to distant lymph nodes or organs. Even some early-stage cancers, like some stage 2A lung cancers, have positive lymph nodes but are not ...

In stage 3, the cancer has spread to lymph nodes on both sides of the diaphragm ... He currently serves as chair of the Lung and Aerodigestive Malignancies Working Group and is a member of the ...

There are two main types of lung cancer: small cell and non-small cell. According to the American Cancer Society, non-small ...

Among patients with stage IA non-small cell lung cancer, long-term survival was better with lobectomy or segmentectomy vs. wedge resection, according to results presented at the Society of Thoracic ...

Lung cancer is when cells in the lung mutate and ... tumors are larger than stage 1 tumors and/or have begun to spread to nearby lymph nodes Stage 3: typically has spread to lymph nodes located ...

New research presented at the 2025 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting reveals that anatomic lung resections, ...