Last wk to apply! Come spend a yr with us in beautiful Montreal honing your expertise in UpperGI and Thoracic Surgery. Great opportunity with my amazing colleagues! @DoctorJSpicer @JonathanCools @sara_najmeh @LFerri123 https://t.co/f3Z6XrbOvp
The VALUE Trial team shows that same-day discharge after VATS lung resection can be done safely for carefully selected patients.
Strong work from @DoctorJSpicer, @MThoracics, @LyndonCWalsh, @filippog92 & @MeravRokah 👏.
In LuCE’s 5th Report, 6 in 10 people said family life was heavily affected by #lungcancer - time away from loved ones adds to the challenge.
📄 Spicer et al., JTCVS 2025
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#ThoracicSurgery #LCSM
Super proud of our team @MThoracics for putting together this trial showing that same day discharge after lung resection, specifically anatomic lung resection, is both safe and feasible! Would not have been possible without the hard work of @LyndonCWalsh and @MeravRokah, as well as our nurses Erin Cronin and Tia Wallace. @sara_najmeh is now leading our standard of care pathway implementation! https://t.co/KntTnXeHvj
Are you a general or thoracic surgeon looking to develop your skills with a world-class team of thoracic surgeons? Less than 1mo to submit application to our fellowship program for position starting July 2026. @DoctorJSpicer @LFerri123 https://t.co/f3Z6XrbOvp
@DoctorJSpicer just articulated what I think has been the theme of the paradigm changing work presented at #ASCO24, “It’s more about disease biology than the anatomical extent.” This is absolutely how I am beginning to think about lung cancer—staging is not a complete prognostic indicator.
ESOPEC trial
It’s been a long 15 year journey, but so nice to see Docetaxel triplets come on top for the benefit of our patients!
CROSS just doesn’t work for GEA-EAC- radiation compensates for poor surgical control (trans-hiatal) and CM577 compensates for poor systemic control
@StephenVLiu@dramycummings@marinagarassino@DoctorJSpicer And an interesting question raised during the discussion. Are we still paying too much attention to stage for treatment decision as oppose to tumor biology and patient factors?
New from the Plenary Session at #ASCO24: ESOPEC helps settle debate on superiority of perioperative #chemo (FLOT) vs neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CROSS) in esophageal cancer with 29-month improvement in OS with FLOT vs CROSS: https://t.co/ZHHv2dfNi3 #ASCODailyNews#esocsm
«De garde 24/7» vous revient pour une 9e saison dans de tous nouveaux lieux. Découvrez les équipes de l'hôpital Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, l'hôpital Le Royer de Baie-Comeau et de l'EVAQ.
📺Jeudi 20h, dès le 7 septembre
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After 4 years of preparation, finally able to provide surgical care to our Inuit patient population within their communities. Sixteen satisfied patients treated this week who did not have to travel 1600km to Montreal for their surgeries. #Puvirnituq
@esinghimd @FordePatrick@DoctorJSpicer@JackWestMD@LungCancerRx I believe we’ll learn about it for CM816 tomorrow.
From the abstract:
“In pts who did not receive definitive surgery, these exploratory analyses showed that neoadjuvant N + C was associated with numerically improved TTDM”
@Tony_Calles Was AEGEAN screening failure rate presented at AACR? The surgical eligibility criteria were even more strict with AEGEAN. Anticipated pneumonectomy were excluded which lead to many screening failure at our site.
Amazing talk by @DrMarkAwad@ASCO
Cross trials comparisons of peri-op IO. Neoadj seems advantageous.
The ❔remains,what to do with poor path responders?
Frequent discussion at our TB, data is badly needed.
Didn’t bring up radiation as an option for persistent N2. Thoughts?