Category Archives: lung/pulmonary

TOP cancer-care program turns 20

Posted on November 11, 2019 by

Thoracic Oncology Program relies on team care Upstate’s Thoracic Oncology Program (TOP) is marking its 20-year anniversary. TOP follows a “multidisciplinary” team approach. Specialists from multiple disciplines make up the team, which collaborates on the care of individual thoracic and … Continue reading →

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She’s beating the odds, thanks to her ‘tenderhearted’ oncologist

Posted on October 25, 2019 by

BY SUSAN KEETER On an August day, Kathi Tamer and her cousins were making Lebanese string cheese. The process involves kneading hot cheese curd into braids and rolling them in caraway seeds. While they cooked, they talked about oncologist Stephen Graziano, MD, … Continue reading →

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On a mission to help: Doctor’s intensive-care skills help poor children with heart trouble in Peru

Posted on September 23, 2019 by

BY JIM HOWE A career spent caring for very sick children, plus some mechanical ingenuity, helped I. Federico Fernández Nievas, MD, when he accompanied a medical charity team to Peru. He joined about two dozen other medical professionals from around … Continue reading →

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Science Is Art: Black lung disease under the microscope

Posted on December 27, 2018 by

Upstate pathology professor Jerrold Abraham, MD, left, and assistant professor Soma Sanyal, MD, are examining lung tissue from coal miners with black lung disease as a part of a large study into the reasons for a recent increase in the … Continue reading →

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A small box that saves lives: Fayetteville man recovers from infection, thanks to ECMO machine

Posted on August 6, 2018 by

BY AMBER SMITH Robert Crain, 47, awoke on Jan. 8 from a medically induced coma. Slowly he pulled together memories from three months before. The Fayetteville podiatrist had a nagging cough in early October. When he began feeling short of … Continue reading →

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Many options: Caregiving team considers multiple factors in managing patients with lung cancer  

Posted on March 19, 2018 by

BY AMBER SMITH People diagnosed with lung cancer a century ago had few options. The earliest surgical techniques, in the 1930s, involved cutting open a patient’s chest and removing an entire lung. While that is sometimes still necessary today, surgeons are … Continue reading →

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Medically fragile, mentally strong: Preschooler thrives, despite cardiac and neurological problems

Posted on February 9, 2018 by

BY AMBER SMITH In 2013, friends of Kristy and John Cornell told the couple about a woman who gave birth to a baby girl in the Buffalo area. The baby was to be adopted, and she had health problems. The Cornells … Continue reading →

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73-mile trip for breast care is worth it to her

Posted on December 18, 2017 by

BY AMBER SMITH Laurie Gildea’s husband, Kevin does the research. She goes with her gut. So when a routine mammogram in May 2017 found a suspicious lesion, and when a subsequent biopsy revealed breast cancer, Gildea suddenly needed a surgeon … Continue reading →

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Daughter, then mother, survive lung cancer

Posted on October 11, 2017 by

BY AMBER SMITH Both mother and daughter were diagnosed with lung nodules that turned out to be cancerous, almost by accident. They underwent the same types of tests, and then the same type of surgery followed by chemotherapy. Darlene Barbato … Continue reading →

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Young brothers battle cystic fibrosis together

Posted on March 31, 2017 by

  BY AMBER SMITH The day after Trevor Delaney turned 6, his mother took him for an appointment with his pulmonologist, Zafer Soultan, MD. The division chief of pediatric pulmonary medicine at Upstate was eager for Trevor to start taking … Continue reading →

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