Prof. Frank C. Detterbeck: A Summary That Was Nuanced Enough to Guide Decision-Making for Individual Patients
Dr. Xiaoxin Chen: funding remains the greatest challenge to research due to constant improvement of technologies
Dr. Anthony P. C. Yim: my second career
Prof. Yih-Sharng Chen: a new era—to breakthrough the old times
Prof. Jang-Ming Lee: single-incision minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE), better recovery for patients
Prof. Miguel A. Cuesta: my experience to being a surgeon on gastrointestinal surgery (specially in esophageal cancer)
Prof. Pierluigi Stefano: new options for the surgical treatment of aortic valve
Prof. Kenji Suzuki: craziness on the road to success
The lung cancer research career of Prof. Ramón Rami-Porta: passion, vision and reflection
Professor Hiroyuki Oizumi: how to identify the intersegmental plane
Interview with Prof. Gilbert Massard: multifarious ways to elevate thoracic surgery education
Prof. Jaroslaw Kuzdzal: education on thoracic surgery should include more global aspects
Prof. Christopher W. Seder: “Cooperation with the STS database: where do we go next?”
Thoracic surgeon Lijie Tan in Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital: discussion on the self-cultivation of a thoracic surgeon
Prof. David Watson: new things are not always better
Professor Joshua Sonett: to make lung donors more available in the US
Prof. John Elefteriades: being alert to everything a patient teaches you
Professor Bruce W. Lytle: let the talented people exhibit their ideas without inhibiting them, taking the advantages of the people around you—the key for collaboration
Dr. Masaki Hashimoto: clinical impact of circulating tumor cell in metastatic colorectal cancer patients who underwent pulmonary metastasectomy
Professor Yin-Kai Chao: art of surgery—the journey of a thoracic surgeon
Professor Clemens Aigner: the development and the future of lung surgery 4
Interview with Prof. Pier Luigi Filosso during the 25th Meeting of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS)
Prof. Boris Sepesi: patient-personalized treatment is the best treatment
Interview with Team Captains of the postgraduate symposium- Master Cup in the 25th Meeting of the ESTS
Prof. Abbas E. Abbas: a robotic thoracic practice can provide both clinical and financial benefits for an academic institution
Prof. Malcolm M. DeCamp: declining use of surgical therapy for early stage non-small cell lung cancer in the United States
Dr. Hui Li—thoracic surgeon in Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital: a good doctor is a master of his scalpel and his thoughts
Prof. Konrad Hoetzenecker: extracorporeal life support, a bridge to lung transplantation
Dr. Sebastien Gilbert: more evidence is need for the promotion of uniportal VATS in North America
Prof. Benny Weksler: adjuvant chemotherapy improves survival
