ILCN Lung Cancer News
ILCN Lung Cancer News


  • Mitigating Pain in Thoracic Surgery

    Mitigating Pain in Thoracic Surgery

    Bryan V. Anderson, MCHS, PA-C, et al.
    Supportive & Palliative Care

    A middle-aged woman walks into the clinic using her right hand to hold her shirt away from her chest. “Even just my shirt brushing against my skin hurts,” she says with a grimace. The patient is now 4 months out from a thoracoscopic right upper lobectomy for early-stage NSCLC. She continues to report sharp pain…