Welcome to Thoracic Surgery

Thoracic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian is dedicated to the delivery of the highest quality and advanced care to patients with diseases of the lung, trachea, esophagus, chest wall and mediastinum. Read More.

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NewYork-Presbyterian & Weill Cornell Medicine – Cardiothoracic Surgery

Conditions & Treatments

Our Surgeons

Nasser K. Altorki, M.D.

Jeffrey L. Port, M.D.

Jonathan Villena-Vargas, M.D.

Sebron W. Harrison, M.D.

Benjamin E. Lee, M.D.

Oliver S. Chow, M.D.

Interventional Pulmonologists

Muhammad S. Ali, M.B.B.S.

Eugene Shostak, M.D.

FAQs & Patient Guides

Weill Cornell Medicine Cardiothoracic Surgery 525 East 68th Street
Box 110
Suite M 404 New York, NY 10065 Directions
Phone: (212) 746-5166 Email: ctsurgery@med.cornell.edu

News

WCM's 2nd Annual Updates in International Interventional Pulmonology Symposium

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Up and-coming Bronchoscopic Ablation Therapies for Treatment of Lung Cancer

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Robotic Bronchoscopy: A Major Advance in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Early-Stage Lung Cancer

Dr. Ali and Dr. Shostak

Robotic technology isn’t replacing doctors; it’s helping them do what they do more safely and with greater control and precision than anyone could have imagined a few short years ago.

“That’s why robotic bronchoscopy is such a game-changer,” Dr. Shostak continues. “It’s like a GPS system that gives us a virtual map telling us which way to turn next as we ‘drive’ through that maze of subdividing airways. And because the robot-assisted method allows us to travel deep into the lung and identify hard-to-reach, potentially cancerous nodules, we can perform biopsies with greater precision and lower complication rates than was previously possible.”

“Our ability to perform robotic bronchoscopy, biopsy and surgical removal of cancerous nodules in one procedure shortens the treatment time window from 90 to 25 days,” Dr. Ali says. “That’s a 3-fold decrease”—one that translates to earlier diagnosis and treatment and to significantly improved survival rates.

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