STAT: Surgeons often take a fifth of the lungs to remove a small tumor. There may be a better way
Among cancers, lung is the deadliest, responsible for nearly 25% of all cancer deaths, and second in incidence only to prostate cancer in men and breast cancer in women. If a patient is lucky enough to discover a tumor early on, the first option is almost always surgery. And for decades, Bharat explained, the standard of care has been to remove one of the five lobes of the lung — a lobectomy — to take out early-stage tumors.
