
MONDAY, Jan. 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A surgeon's skill has a direct impact on whether a patient will survive early-stage lung cancer.Unfortunately, many surgeons are failing to follow a playbook that increase the odds of a successful outcome, a new study argues.The quality of surgery for lung cancer varies widely across the United States, and patients whose procedures fall short of treatment guidelines suffer significantly worse outcomes, said lead researcher Dr. Brendan Heiden, a thoracic surgeon at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis."When you do all of those things, patients have much better outcomes," Heiden said of treatment standards. "We know what to do, and the key is to do it as often as we can. We're never going to reach 100%, but there is room for...