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Last Name Initial: W

  1. Meng Welliver, M.D., Ph.D.

    Meng Welliver, M.D., Ph.D.

    1. Radiation Oncologist
    1. Rochester, MN
    Areas of focus:

    Brachytherapy, Stereotactic body radiotherapy, Stereotactic radiosurgery, Image-guided radiation therapy, Chordoma, Lun...g cancer, Mesothelioma, Soft tissue sarcoma, Lymphoma, Bone cancer, Chondrosarcoma, Angiosarcoma, Thymic tumor

  2. Dennis Wigle, M.D., Ph.D.

    Dennis Wigle, M.D., Ph.D.

    1. Thoracic Surgeon
    1. Rochester, MN
    Areas of focus:

    VATS, Esophagectomy, Minimally invasive surgery, Robotic surgery, Esophageal reconstruction, Thymectomy, Lung volume re...duction surgery, Heller myotomy, Peroral endoscopic myotomy, Hyperhidrosis surgery, VATS lobectomy, Segmentectomy, Video mediastinoscopy, Minimally invasive thymectomy, Minimally invasive esophagectomy, Supercharged jejunal interposition, Gastroesophageal reflux disease, Hiatal hernia, Achalasia, Pneumothorax, Pectus excavatum, Pectus carinatum, Lung cancer, Mesothelioma, Hyperhidrosis, Myasthenia gravis, Esophageal cancer, Pancoast tumor, Mediastinal lymph node enlargement, Mediastinal tumor, Thymic tumor

Research

Researchers looking at results in a laboratory

Mayo Clinic doctors and researchers are actively studying ways to improve care for people with lung cancer. Examples include:

  • Improving early diagnosis. Mayo Clinic doctors are investigating ways to make lung cancer screening programs more effective by expanding the understanding of lung cancer risk and developing new tests, including blood tests, that could supplement imaging tests.
  • Making surgery less invasive. Mayo Clinic thoracic surgeons are devising less invasive techniques that lead to faster healing and less pain, including microlobectomy and robotic lobectomy.
  • Developing new targets for systemic therapy. Mayo Clinic doctors are studying lung cancer cells in order to develop new ways of targeting treatments. Mayo Clinic researchers made an important discovery that led to immunotherapy treatments called immune checkpoint inhibitors that have revolutionized care for people with metastatic lung cancer.

Lung cancer research is conducted in coordination with the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center receives funding from the U.S. National Cancer Institute and is designated as a comprehensive cancer center. This designation recognizes the institution's scientific excellence and multidisciplinary resources focused on cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

Learn more about Mayo Clinic's Epidemiology and Genetics of Lung Cancer Research Program.

Publications

See a list of publications about lung cancer by Mayo Clinic doctors on PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine.

Research Profiles

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Lung cancer care at Mayo Clinic

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Joseph Sirven, M.D., Professor of Neurology, Mayo Clinic: Mayo's mission is about the patient. The patient comes first. So the mission and research here is to advance how we can best help the patient, how to make sure the patient comes first in care. So in many ways, it's a cycle. It can start with as simple as an idea worked on in a laboratory, brought to the patient bedside, and if everything goes right — and let's say it's helpful or beneficial — then brought on as a standard approach. And I think that is one of the unique characteristics of Mayo's approach to research — that patient-centeredness — that really helps to put it in its own spotlight.