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Hearing that your CT scan shows a Ground Glass Nodule (GGO) on your CT scan can be worrying. Many people immediately fear lung cancer, but the […]

Yes. Smoking causes most lung cancers, but not all of them. Roughly 10 to 20 percent of cases worldwide occur in people with no smoking history. […]

Both go in through small ports instead of a large open chest wound. Neither one wins outright. What decides it is the specific case, mainly how […]

Fit patients get surgery. That’s the short answer for early stage lung cancer. Radiation, mainly SBRT, comes in for people who can’t safely go through an […]

The windpipe narrows. That’s tracheal stenosis. Usually it’s scar tissue left behind by a breathing tube or a tracheostomy, though tumours or direct injury to the […]

A thymoma forms in the epithelial cells of the thymus gland, sitting behind the breastbone in the anterior mediastinum. It’s the most common tumour found in […]

Most weeks, someone walks into my clinic clutching a CT report, and one line has been read so many times the paper is soft at the […]

A thoracic surgeon is a specialist trained to diagnose and surgically treat conditions affecting the chest specifically the lungs, oesophagus, trachea, mediastinum, and chest wall. The […]

Robotic thoracic surgery and open thoracotomy achieve the same surgical goal through completely different means. One uses 3 to 4 small port incisions and a robotic […]