lung cancer

Interview

A Need for Multidisciplinary Understanding of Ablation in Oncology

02/06/2015

Our colleagues in surgical, medical, and radiation oncology still need to be made aware of the efficacy and application of ablation.Consider a 65-year-old female patient presenting to the local thoracic multidisciplinary conference with a...

Our colleagues in surgical,...

02/06/2015

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Multidisciplinary Cancer Care: The Role of Interventional Oncology

12/05/2013

Ronald S. Winokur, MD, and David C. Madoff, MD

From the Division of Interventional Radiology, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Correspondence to: David C. Madoff, MD, 525 East 68th Street, Payson 5, New York, NY 10065; email: dcm9006@med.cornell.edu

Ronald S. Winokur, MD, and David C. M...

Multidisciplinary care teams have been utilized throughout the world for many years to improve patient care and treatment planning by combining the expertise of multiple specialists. The US National Guideline Clearinghouse lists over 2,700...

Multidisciplinary care teams...

12/05/2013

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Conformational Cool-Tip Lung Radiofrequency Ablation

09/11/2013

Jonathan Weinstein, MD, John H. Rundback, MD, Jordan Anaokar, MD, Kevin Herman, MD

From the Interventional Institute, Holy Name Medical Center, Teaneck, NJ.

Jonathan Weinstein, MD, John H. Rundb...

  Primary non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) causes more deaths in the United States per year than the combined mortality of breast, colon, and prostate cancer.1 For newly diagnosed patients, the 5-year overall survival rate is 15%. Due...

  Primary non-small cell...

09/11/2013

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