Chest surgeons, pulmonary medicine physicians and oncologists at Mayo Clinic actively and continually review their patients' results and responses to therapy. They use the information from these analyses to help guide future therapies and research. Mayo Clinic surgeons and physicians publish their clinical results and present their findings at national and international medical congresses.
See a list of publications by Mayo Clinic doctors on lung cancer on PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine.
Mayo researcher Dennis Wigle, M.D., Ph.D., describes the possibilities of individualized medicine in lung cancer care. See video.
Radiation oncologist Steven Schild, M.D., explains how Mayo Clinic is designing lung cancer treatment trials aimed at promoting a higher cure rate and a lower toxicity in treatment. See video on YouTube.
Research descriptions of individual investigators on www.mayo.edu: