What great work from a couple of our previous McGillThoracic fellows and mcgill super student Lyndon Walsh. They definitely didn’t learn this innovative technique from me!

Thought provoking presentation at AATS #ITSOS2024 by Shanique Ries, MD discussing surgical resection of Stage IV NSCLC patients. Outstanding results and I look forward to reading the whole manuscript in detail. Mara Antonoff, MD, FACS Isabelle Opitz MD Anderson Cancer Center Reza Mehran, MD

Outstanding work by Lyndon Walsh with remarkable mentorship by Mara Antonoff, MD, FACS and Pierre Fiset to establish a global perspective on one of the most central and mysteriously nebulous aspects of thoracic surgical practice: the lymph nodes and what to do with them??? MD Anderson Cancer Center

Great job Lyndon Walsh!!!

Biobank everything, collaborate, and ask the right research questions. Dr. @loganawalsh from Rosalind & Morris Goodman Cancer Institute presenting at AATS #ITSOS2024 Demonstrating the importance of implementing technology to understand the tumour immune microenvironment. S Jonathan Spicer MD PhD McGill University

Great work by Filippo Gallina on extended Lobectomy for NSCLC

I am at the #acs2024 meeting today. Lots of discussion at various talks about implementing robotic surgery technologies for a variety of operations. To me, much of this didn’t make sense. Robotic appendectomy? Really? Surgeons need to keep in mind that robotic technologies

Check out this awesome new study by the spatial biologists Rosalind & Morris Goodman Cancer Institute led by Lysanne Desharnais Mark Sorin and PI @loganawalsh! Few studies provide such detail contrasting the spatial TME of LUSC and LUAD: the two dominant NSCLC histologies! nature.com/articles/s4146…

April's Annals of Thoracic Surgery issue will feature a study led by Alexandra Potter on #lungcancerscreening eligibility in the Boston Lung Cancer Study: authors.elsevier.com/a/1koSaovKl3dU Only 46% of patients with #lungcancer were eligible to get screened under current USPSTF guidelines.

New lung cancer research: Mediastinal lymph node dissection in segmentectomy for peripheral c-stage IA (≤2 cm) #NSCLC—how beneficial is it? Find out from surgeons in Tokyo by reading the study in #JTCVS: doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcv…

On the subject of identifying patients for novel neoadjuvant trials, I am so very proud of Meghan De Meo, PhD student in my lab, for publishing her work examining ddPCR to identify patients with KRAS mutations in early-stage NSCLC. While interesting for stage III, this technology

Recently published in #JTCVS Open: Surveying surgeon practices and perspectives on extent of intraoperative nodal evaluation in #NSCLC. Lyndon Walsh, Mara Antonoff, MD, FACS et al. Read now: doi.org/10.1016/j.xjon…

Super proud of our team McGillThoracic for putting together this trial showing that same day discharge after lung resection, specifically anatomic lung resection, is both safe and feasible! Would not have been possible without the hard work of Lyndon Walsh and Merav Rokah, as well

Amazing job of Lyndon Walsh! Proud to be part of this incredible group. Jonathan Spicer MD PhD

The VALUE Trial team shows that same-day discharge after VATS lung resection can be done safely for carefully selected patients. Strong work from Jonathan Spicer MD PhD, McGillThoracic, Lyndon Walsh, Filippo Gallina & Merav Rokah 👏. In LuCE’s 5th Report, 6 in 10 people said family life was

A privilege and a pleasure to work with the remarkable Jonathan Spicer MD PhD and the outstanding McGillThoracic team. Pushing forward same-day discharge in thoracic surgery—improving patient care and recovery! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Another inspiring lab meeting with our brilliant students. Very pleased that the Spicer lab can celebrate 10 years of science with continuous funding from various sources. Couldn’t have done it without my research partner Roni Rayes who has been there from the beginning and all