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Also known as segmentectomy, this treatment removes an area of lung smaller than a lobe—usually the tumor and a small area of healthy lung tissue around it.

This is a treatment used for early-stage cancer and sometimes to remove a piece of the lung where cancer is suspected but not proven.

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