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East Melbourne Heart and Lung

Locality: Fitzroy, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9419 2477

Address: 55 Victoria Pde, 5th Floor 3065 Fitzroy, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.emhl.com.au/

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25.01.2022 To our patients and followers, please adhere to the #StayHome rules explicitly. We are truly one of the lucky countries at the moment, with sufficient health resources and a head start on #FlatteningtheCurve, thanks to the strong leadership of our various state and federal Chief Medical/Health Officers. We need time to train our health teams to protect themselves and the public so we don't have a repeat of the European or US catastrophes here. We are conducting almost all of ...our consultations via phone or video Telehealth to protect our patients and EMHL staff from inadvertently transmitting the disease. As cough and shortness of breath are common amongst our EMHL patients, and are common symptoms of COVID-19, we have to be especially careful. If you do need important or urgent surgery especially cancer-related, rest assured you will still receive that for as long as we possibly can until the final peak of COVID-19 overwhelms us for a short time. Despite all the upheaval, we wish you a Happy Easter Holiday and look forward to helping you in less conventional ways for the time being.

24.01.2022 Profiling our managing partner, Dr Matthew Conron. Matthew is a high achiever but is the most down to earth doctor you could meet. He is the glue for our multidisciplinary lung cancer clinics and a brilliant respiratory physician. We are proud to have him at East Melbourne Heart and Lung https://www.svphm.org.au//SpecialistProfile_Matthew_Conron

24.01.2022 St Vincents surgeon A/Prof Gavin Wright performed St Vincents Hospital Melbournes first robotic thoracic surgery on a public patient using the Da Vinci Surgi...cal Robot system located at St Vincents Private Hospital. The Da Vinci robot is being used on a regular basis across a number of surgical disciplines for public patients, in an ongoing partnership between St Vincents Private and Public hospital that is resulting in improved outcomes and reduced hospital length of stay. The system has been shown to reduce post-operative pain and provide quicker recovery for patients due to the minimally invasive nature of the procedure. #StVincents

24.01.2022 The disparity in funding and outcomes in lung cancer is stark. This scorecard graphic from Lung Foundation Australia shows the difference between lung cancer and the other 3 most common cancers (Prostate, Breast, Bowel)

23.01.2022 The new Australian epidemic in lung cancer is female, and often non-smoking. The latest graph from the National Cancer Control Indicators Website demonstrates this perfectly. Male mortality has been steady at about 5000 per year since the mid-eighties, but female mortality has tripled in about the same period. This trend (if it continues) will see more females with lung cancer than males in the next few years.

22.01.2022 The new robot coming to St Vincents Private will be a great addition to the tools used by Our EMHL surgeons

22.01.2022 https://www.jto.org/article/S1556-0864(19)30026-7/fulltext Non-smokers and long term ex-smokers now make up almost 50% of lung cancer cases as we urbanise and cram more people into cities. In Taiwan it has now been subject to scientific study. What we guessed now seems true ...

22.01.2022 For medical followers and the interested public, Prof Wright has a YouTube channel showing the latest minimally invasive techniques including robotics. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn7LmxUlWmd2Z0a-EDOYpdw

22.01.2022 FFS! The Free From Stigma campaign https://freefromstigma.org.au/mary

21.01.2022 https://www.linkedin.com//st-vincent%27s-private-hospital- Happy 300th robot to St Vincents Private Hospital ! Happy 100th robot to East Melbourne Heart and Lungs Professor Wright !

20.01.2022 There is no colour in the ribbon for lung cancer because its known as the invisible disease. It kills more people on the planet than many other cancers combined but suffers from stigma and relative underfunding in research.

20.01.2022 At EMHL, we always try to get access to clinical trials in lung cancer for our patients. We are also in negotiations to commence new trials and research projects. Here is a selection of our ongoing clinical trials: StableMates: Randomised trial of limited surgical resection versus stereotactic radiotherapy for peripheral lung cancers < 4cm in poor surgical risk patients. https://youtu.be/JKk5-AQePfw RECRUITING NOW... BR31: Randomised trial of immunotherapy versus placebo after complete resection of lung cancer (with or without post-operative chemotherapy. https://www.ctg.queensu.ca/public/about-br31 RECRUITING NOW WORLD: Randomised trial of sublobar (limited) surgical resection versus lobectomy in peripheral lung cancers < 2cm. http://meyercancer.weill.cornell.edu//lobectomy-early-nscl FOLLOW UP ONLY KEYNOTE-200 (STORM): intravenously delivered oncolytic virus (Coxsackievirus A21) in combination with pembrolizumab in advanced lung cancer patients. https://www.viralytics.com//clinical-trials/clinical-tria/ FOLLOW UP ONLY

20.01.2022 Our lung cancer patients feel like they have the 'wrong' cancer It only really dawns on cancer patients when they get to the chemo ward that some patients get dedicated nurses and others don't. Is that fair? http://www.theage.com.au//some-cancer-patients-get-dedicat

20.01.2022 The Vellar Foundation Lecture is delivered every year at the St Vincent's Surgical Forum. This year A/Prof Wright was chosen to deliver his lecture titled - "Lung Cancer Surgery: The Evolution of Lung Sparing Techniques". From Left To Right: Professor Peter Choong (Hugh Devine Chair of Surgery at University of Melbourne), Mr Ivo Vellar OAM, A/Prof Gavin Wright and A/Prof Dominic Vellar.

19.01.2022 An exciting day for our thoracic surgeons and one of our patients ...

19.01.2022 One of our respiratory physicians, Dr Naghmeh Radhakrishna, spoke to the Fairfax Media regarding the Thunderstorm Asthma enquiry and the risks of asthma in recent migrants coming to Australia...

19.01.2022 International teaching is a passion of our East Melbourne Heart and Lung Surgeons. One of our thoracic surgeons, Mr Naveed Alam, is part of the international faculty teaching minimally invasive lung surgery in Asian countries. He is a senior member of the Asian Thoracoscopic Education Platform which this year was located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

18.01.2022 A comparison of historical outcomes over the last 15 years in the US confirms our own data that VATS or thoracoscopic surgery for lung cancer provides as good or better survival but lower impact on patients at the time of surgery. http://ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/JCO.2018.77.897

16.01.2022 One of our Thoracic surgeons, Mr Naveed Alam doing his robot surgery simulator training on the new Intuitive Surgical Da Vinci Xi at St Vincent's Private Hospital Fitzroy #Thoracic #Surgery #robot

16.01.2022 Well done to one of our EMHL thoracic surgeons, Mr Naveed Alam, for performing group surgery on a husband and wife team from Tasmania. We supply a large volume of lung surgery services to Launceston and northern Tasmania, where Mr Alam holds regular clinics

16.01.2022 Nice little video about the new dual console da Vinci Xi Robot at St Vincent's Private Hospital Melbourne, featuring our thoracic surgeons A/Prof Gavin Wright and Mr Naveed Alam (the back of his head, that is).

15.01.2022 A very informative article, especially for people living with cancer ...

14.01.2022 What a great team we have at EMHL! Our admin and research support, our surgeons, respiratory physicians all had a great time celebrating our many years together. Thanks to Fred and Ginger Catering for putting on such an amazing cocktail party with seemingly endless delicious food and drinks.

13.01.2022 Every hour, an Australian loses their life to lung cancer. This disease takes more lives than any other cancer, yet it receives the least funding. Today, were ...standing side-by-side with the medical community as they advocate for change. They cant sit idly by and wait not when theyre losing their patients. Find out more: www.FreeFromStigma.org.au See more

11.01.2022 This is how our surgeons remove a lobe of the lung using curved instruments through a single keyhole in the chest. The technique is known as UNIPORTAL VATS LOBECTOMY. This results in less pain, earlier discharge from hospital, and quicker return to original level of fuctioning or employment. The operation took just over 30 minutes but has been condensed to just 5 minutes. RUL=Right upper lobe; RML=Right Middle Lobe; RLL=Righ Lower Lobe; HF=Horizontal fissure (separating upper and lower lobes).

10.01.2022 https://www.linkedin.com//st-vincent%27s-private-hospital- Happy 300th robot to St Vincent’s Private Hospital ! Happy 100th robot to East Melbourne Heart and Lung’s Professor Wright !

09.01.2022 Our surgical team on 9 News demonstrated the use of 3 new technologies in one grateful patient. First, navigational bronchoscopy to mark a small cancer with a glowing dye, then the da Vinci robot to remove the tumour when lit up by a laser light called Firefly.

06.01.2022 Terribly sad to see this often these days

06.01.2022 Congratulations to one of our hardworking researchers, Dr Zoe Wainer, who investigated the sex differences in patients diagnosed with lung cancer. Now shes a double doctor.

06.01.2022 Fascinating read! One of the medical oncologists we refer for lung cancer patients is the wonderful Dr Genni Newnham. Like our surgeons and respiratory physicians at St Vincent's, one of her roles is to treat prisoners with cancer from the State's Correctional Facilities. She talks about the extra challenges here ... https://thelimbic.com//my-life-on-the-oncology-ward-that-/

05.01.2022 Physical activity is anti-cancer activity amongst its many other health benefits. Cycling has the added advantage of reducing our pollution, congestion and carbon emissions. That's a win-win-win-win!

05.01.2022 I think surgeons are some of the brightest, hard-working people I know. The dedication, the study, the perseverance is all in the name of being better, all the... time so that our patients may reap the rewards. Cardiothoracic surgeon and RACS Fellow Dr Nikki Stamp speaks to Careers with STEM about women pursuing careers in surgery. Read the full article: https://bit.ly/2zIqH4j

04.01.2022 Congratulations to lung cancer patient advocate Lisa Briggs who has been nominated for the 2020 Victoria Local Hero Award. Lisa, who was diagnosed in 2014, has ...been recognised for her tireless campaigning for people living with lung cancer. Read more about her nomination here: https://bit.ly/2OTmOT7 See more

03.01.2022 Q: How do we know if a lump in the lung is cancerous if we cant get a diagnosis by a needle biopsy or bronchoscopy? A: We perform whats known as a wedge resection with frozen section using thoracoscopic (keyhole) surgery. In these pictures we see a slice of the lung nodule which has been snap frozen in a white material called OCT (green arrow). This machine cuts a super thin slice or section of the tumour so that it can be looked at immediately under the microscope.... If it comes back as cancer, we can proceed to a lobectomy under the same anaesthetic. If not, we simply put in our drain tube and close the small hole in the skin.

03.01.2022 This article reports an important finding that the vein should be divided first if part of the lung is being removed for a lung cancer. Less tumour cells were released into the blood stream, and it appears patients treated this way survived longer overall and longer without any return of their cancer. Our surgeons have intuitively done this for 15-20 years, but now this evidence supports the deliberate practice.

02.01.2022 Join A/Prof Gavin Wright to hear his public talk on the meaningful advances for patients with lung cancer. Details below https://www.viccompcancerctr.org//monday-lunch-live-with/

02.01.2022 Well done to our Thoracic Surgeon, Mr Naveed Alam, for teaching on the latest Asian Thoracoscopic Education Platform in Vietnam. Second from right in front row with eager students behind him!

02.01.2022 This is a great resource for patients facing lung cancer surgery. From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons ... http://bit.ly/2PTPkG2