Awake minimally invasive surgery as a game changer in lung cancer

Abstract

Surgery still offers the best option for patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer that can tolerate surgery. With the increase in screening programs, more patients are diagnosed at early stages of cancer. Sadly, not all of them are fit for surgery, but with minimally invasive approaches, large number of those patients can be offered surgery and get a better overall survival. Awake non-intubated video assisted thoracic surgery resection is one of the most recent technique that we believe to be a game changer in this spectrum of patients who were previously classified as medically inoperable.

Keywords

Video assisted thoracic surgery / stereotactic body radiotherapy / early stage / non-small cell lung cancer / minimally invasive / inoperable

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