Thoracic cancer

The thoracic cancer research group is led by Mr Eric Lim and Professor Pallav Shah and includes surgeons, consultants, senior academics, research nurses and other research staff. 

Research areas

  • Surgical outcomes and techniques in thoracic surgery and in pulmonary cryosurgery.
  • Tumour profiling and biomarkers.
  • Clinical lung cancer research including surgical evaluations, clinical trials and meta-analyses.
  • Surgical treatment of sarcoma and COPD.
  • Surgical metastasectomy.
  • Early diagnosis and staging of lung cancer.