Our pre-proof of "Clinical Utility of Artificial Intelligence-Augmented Endobronchial Ultrasound-Elastography in Lymph Node Staging for Lung Cancer" is now available via JTCVS Techniques buff.ly/3ypTKvL

medrxiv.org/content/10.110… Here’s some work from Our group suggesting immunologic benefits to nutrition, social support and exercise in lung cancer patients. It’s though to get published in amazed at how controversial TLC for patients is …

I would add, we’re so focused on drugs and surgery sometimes we forget how much of a difference simple things can make in a persons life. Exercise and nutrition are not life style modification they are medicine

After a tragic loss, a career devoted to organ regeneration. Read McGill University Canada Excellence Research Chair Darcy Wagner's story. ow.ly/JgcY50STpjz McGill School of Biomedical Sciences McGill Biomedical Engineering

Congratulations to GCI trainee Mark Sorin, who received the Canadian Medical Hall Fame Award for Medical students. Read more: tinyurl.com/yvufees6 McGill Medicine and Health Sciences FRQ - secteur Santé McGill University

The Lahey Lung Cancer Screening program has surpassed 30,000 scans 10,500 patients scanned 382 lung cancers detected Cancer detection rate of 3.65% 0.0095 rate of any invasive procedure in patients without cancer Lung Cancer Screening is SAFE and EFFECTIVE

5-year follow up of neoadjuvant sintilimab (PD-1) for NSCLC Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. Pts with resectable NSCLC had 2 doses of sintilimab monotherapy then resection. 5y DFS 65.7% and 5y OS 80.4%. If PD-L1 positive, 5y DFS 71.9% and 5y OS 90.9%. jitc.bmj.com/content/12/8/e…

Important & impressive study by Dr. Natalie Lui's team at @stanfordctsurg showing greater ipsilateral rectus muscle atrophy after robotic thoracic surgery compared to open & VATS approaches. Research was painstakingly done. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Natalie Lui Leah Backhus MD MPH FACS

1. #ITSOS2024 is coming up soon! We’re gathering in New York Sept 27-28 to discuss the newest innovations in thoracic #oncology with AATS. We can’t wait to see you there: events.aats.org/itsos24/regist…

Looking forward to this plenary presentation on Surgical Outcomes w/periop Nivolumab in Checkmate 77T by donington and the privilege to be a discussant. Definitely register and join us at #ITSOS2024 AATS

🔥#WCLC24 abstracts ☢️Advancing Multimodal Therapies in Stage III NSCLC ☑️Chairs: Dr. Feng-Ming Spring Kong Erin A Gillaspie, MD, MPH, FACS 🎙️M.Provencio 🎯APOLO: Phase II Induction Chemo-IO + CRT and Maintenance IO in Stage III NSCLC #LCSM IASLC OncoAlert cattendee.abstractsonline.com/meeting/20598

Elliot Servais, MD, FACS ESTS Shanda Blackmon, MD Tom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA, FACS, MAMSE 🇺🇸 Brendon Stiles Jonathan Spicer MD PhD I do them in my brain, using axial sagittal and coronal cuts.

Thrilled to participate on this all-star panel of amazing friends and leaders! I'll be joined by Rajika Jindani, MD, MPH, MS, a surgical resident at Montefiore Health System Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Official who I am grateful to sponsor & mentor, as we focus on supporting the Next Generation and the call to "Sponsor Her".

Honoured to serve as president of the International Society for Digestive Surgery for 2024-2026. ISDS International Society of Surgery (ISS/SIC) #ISW2024KualaLumpur. Join us at the next International Surgical Week in Mexico City - April 18-23 2026!

Surprising results, stereotactic radiation plus anti-PD1 for stage 1-2 NSCLC, addition of immunotherapy does not confer benefit #lcsm merck.com/news/merck-pro…

This is an extremely important work from Biniam Kidane and team confirming in another setting that #PROs are predicting complications better than traditional objective preop parameters. Same results in our UK population here ⬇️ doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/… #LCSM ESTS IASLC

A Gopher's Day at the Beach Launch! youtu.be/bGezaHbwJBM?si… via YouTube

Going to be a great debate! Bring your 🍿

Don't miss out on our thoracic oncology workshop WS07 #WCLC24 on Sept 7! I’ll share surgical considerations and join the Tumor Board discussion. 2024 World Conference on Lung Cancer in San Diego, USA, Sept 7, 2024 | 10:30 AM UTC-7 Brendon Stiles cattendee.abstractsonline.com/meeting/20598/…

Our Canadian colleagues are doing much better than us here in the states with preconditioning (“prehab”) for pulmonary surgery patients. What is holding us up? Brendon Stiles Tom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA, FACS, MAMSE 🇺🇸 Shanda Blackmon, MD Susan Moffatt-Bruce Jonathan Spicer MD PhD Biniam Kidane