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Last updated: 02/17/2009
BOOKS
Argenziano, Michael, M.D., and Mark E. Ginsburg, M.D., eds.Lung Volume Reduction Surgery, 1st ed. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2002.
Devita, Vincent T., Samuel Hellman, and...
Steven A. Rosenberg, eds. Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology, 6th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers, 2001.
Henschke, Claudia I., Peggy McCarthy, and Sarah Wernick.Lung Cancer: Myths, Facts, Choices—And Hope, 1st ed. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2002.
Johnston, Lorraine. Lung Cancer: Making Sense of Diagnosis,Treatment, and Options. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, 2001.
Pass, H., M. D., D. Johnson, M. D., James B. Mitchell, PhD., et al., eds. Lung Cancer: Principles and Practice, 2nd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000.
PERIODICALS
Crystal, Ronald G. "Research Opportunities and Advances inLung Disease."Journal of the American Medical Association 285 (2001): 612-618.
Grann, Victor R., and Alfred I. Neugut. "Lung Cancer Screening at Any Price?"Journal of the American Medical Association 289 (2003): 357-358.
Mahadevia, Parthiv J., Lee A. Fleisher, Kevin D. Frick, et al."Lung Cancer Screening with Helical Computed Tomography in Older Adult Smokers: A Decision and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis."Journal of the American Medical Association 289 (2003): 313-322.
Pope, C. Arden, III, Richard T. Burnett, Michael J. Thun, et al."Lung Cancer, Cardiopulmonary Mortality, and Long-Term Exposure to Fine Particulate Air pollution."Journal of the American Medical Association 287 (2002): 1132-1141.
ORGANIZATIONS
American Cancer Society. 1599 Clifton Road, N.E., Atlanta, GA 30329-4251. (800) 227-2345.
American Lung Association, National Office. 1740 Broadway,New York, NY 10019. (800) LUNG-USA.
National Cancer Institute (NCI), Building 31, Room 10A03, 31Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-2580. Phone: (800) 4-CANCER. (301) 435-3848.
National Comprehensive Cancer Network. 50 HuntingdonPike, Suite 200, Rockledge, PA 19046. (215) 728-4788. Fax: (215) 728-3877.
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). 6701Rockledge Drive, P.O. Box 30105, Bethesda, MD 20824-0105. (301) 592-8573.
OTHER
Aetna InteliHealth Inc. Lung Cancer. [cited May 17, 2003].
American Cancer Society (ACS). Cancer Reference Information. [cited May 17, 2003].
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Other Information
A pneumonectomy (or pneumectomy) is a surgical procedure to remove a lung. Removal of just one lobe of the lung is specifically referred to as a lobectomy, and that of a segment of the lung as a wedge resection (or segmentectomy).
The most common cause for a pneumonectomy is to excise tumourous tissue arising from lung cancer. Other indications for lobectomy include a solitary pulmonary nodule (the possibility of undiagnosed small-cell cancer in this instance is not necessarily a reason for avoiding thoracotomy), or bronchiectasis where other forms of treatment have failed, particularly if it is localised and recurrent hemoptysis is present. In the days prior to the use of antibiotics in tuberculosis treatment, tuberculosis was sometimes treated surgically by pneumonectomy.
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