Dr. West reviews basic principles of treating locally advanced lung cancer, including the need to treat both local disease and possible distant disease, and the need to balance efficacy with toxicity.

Thoracic Surgeon Dr. Eric Vallieres reviews the principle of giving chemotherapy prior to lung cancer surgery in order to improve survival and potentially make it possible to do a smaller lung surgery.

Dr. Eric Vallieres, thoracic surgeon, discusses the potential to do smaller lung surgeries on patients with a lung cancer that poses a minimal risk of recurrence.

Current clinical trials are examining the possibility of giving kidney cancer (also called renal cell carcinoma, or RCC) patients immunotherapy as their first option of care upon diagnosis.

The immune checkpoint inhibitor Opdivo (nivolumab) has been shown to increase survival for patients with metastatic clear cell kidney cancer (also called renal cell carcinoma, or RCC).

Dr. Chris Loiselle, radiation oncologist, describes stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) as a helpful and increasingly favored treatment option for sicker, "medically inoperable" patients with early stage lung cancer.

Should older patients with lung cancer undergo surgery? What issues affect the probability of an elderly patients safely undergoing lung cancer surgery. Dr. Eric Vallières, thoracic surgeon, provides an expert perspective.

Dr. Eric Vallières, thoracic surgeon, describes the phsycial challenges and risks for patients who undergo a pneumonectomy for lung cancer.

There are multiple different types of lung cancer surgery. Dr. Eric Vallières, thoracic surgeon, reviews the different forms of lung surgery, include wedge resection, segmentectomy, lobectomy, and pneumonectomy.

Dr. Eric Vallières, thoracic surgeon, reviews the structure and purpose of staging using the current tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) system for lung cancer.