Among patients with stage IA non-small cell lung cancer, long-term survival was better with lobectomy or segmentectomy vs.

Both segmentectomy and wedge resection procedures are usually performed when a small cancer is found in a small area of the lung. A wedge resection is like a segmentectomy, but it is typically a ...

The difference in survival disappeared after 71 years of age; [116] One report found 5-year survivals of 92.4, 96.7 and 85.7% for lobectomy, segmentectomy and wedge resection, respectively ...

New research presented at the 2025 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting reveals that anatomic lung resections, such as lobectomy and segmentectomy, are associated with improved long-term ...

In routine practice, unadjusted 10-year overall survival (OS) for lobectomy reached 44.8%, while for segmentectomy it was 44.2%, and for wedge resection 41.4%, according to Christopher Seder ...

Both lobectomy and segmentectomy demonstrated better outcomes than wedge resection, which had 5-year OS of 66.3% and 10-year OS of 41.4%. Read the full story here.