The new lung cancer screening program needs to be independently evaluated to keep it on track, and to minimise the harms.

Robotic lung biopsy, surgery provides higher accuracy, faster recovery for patients. Leslie Fox, for The Gazette. Apr. 6, 2025 5:00 am. The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread.

Biopsy resulted in a diagnosis of cancer or a specific benign condition that was confirmed to be accurate through month 12 in 79% of patients undergoing navigational bronchoscopy and 73.6% of ...

Prescalene-lymph-node biopsy was the most common special procedure, and, without this, most referring physicians would not agree to lung biopsy. Bronchoscopy was performed in about half our cases.

Consecutive adults who were referred for lung-nodule biopsy were screened by a local site investigator. ... need for subsequent nodule biopsy or staging procedure, and radiation exposure.

Thoracoscopic procedures reduce morbidity and the length of hospitalization compared to lung biopsy through open thoracotomy, while providing comparably diagnostic specimens.

Abhishek Biswas, center, a pulmonologist with Multicare Health, and his surgery team do additional imaging following a lung biopsy procedure on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, at Good Samaritan Hospital ...

This system can dramatically reduce the overall treatment time for patients and reduces the risk of complications from more invasive, less accurate biopsy procedures. Lung cancer remains the ...

Abhishek Biswas, left, a pulmonologist with Multicare Health, utilizes X-ray imaging, center and right, to prepare for a lung biopsy using the DaVinci ION robotic surgery system on Wednesday, May ...

CT-guided percutaneous lung biopsy: A minimally invasive procedure that utilises computed tomography imaging to accurately guide a needle into lung tissue to obtain diagnostic samples.

Abhishek Biswas, left, a pulmonologist with Multicare Health, utilizes X-ray imaging, center and right, to prepare for a lung biopsy using the DaVinci ION robotic surgery system on Wednesday, May ...

Abhishek Biswas, center, a pulmonologist with Multicare Health, and his surgery team do additional imaging following a lung biopsy procedure on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, at Good Samaritan Hospital ...