Accounting for approximately 85% of all lung cancer diagnoses, Non-small-cell-lung-cancer (NSCLC) is regarded as the most common type of lung cancer. Its high prevalence has prompted the innovation of strategies targeted at NSCLC screening and treatment.
NSCLC intervention relies on surgery as a standard treatment. Such examples include lobectomies, pneumonectomies, segmentectomies, and wedge resections. Surgical management of NSCLC has developed significantly over the years and continues to evolve to make lung resection a shorter, safer and less traumatic approach, while offering the best oncologic resection adapted to the specific NSCLC stage.
The introduction of minimally invasive techniques such as Video-Assisted Thorascopic Surgery (VATS), Robot-Assisted Thorascopic Surgery (RATS), surgical staplers have gained considerable attention over the years and have shown to reduce post-operative complications, though scepticism lies with the oncologic effectiveness compared to open-approach surgery. While these novel techniques have emerged over the past decades, Lobectomy remains the preferred surgical approach due to better survival rates, though, sublobular resections have recently gained significant interest. The applications of these surgical techniques have warranted the necessity to reassess risk factors, safety and outcomes in NSCLC surgery.
Frontiers in Surgery has organized an article collection in our Thoracic Surgery section on, 'Assessing the Safety of Thoracic Surgical techniques for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer' in aim to improve the clinical management of patients through promotion of innovative research findings in thoracic surgical practices today. For this reason, all article types accepted by Frontiers are encouraged.
This Research Topic will highlight comparative analyses for various NSCLC surgical approaches, in safety, effectiveness and survival. Notable sub-topics include:
- Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS)
- Lobectomy versus Sublobular resections
- Stapler methods in segmentectomy
Accounting for approximately 85% of all lung cancer diagnoses, Non-small-cell-lung-cancer (NSCLC) is regarded as the most common type of lung cancer. Its high prevalence has prompted the innovation of strategies targeted at NSCLC screening and treatment.
NSCLC intervention relies on surgery as a standard treatment. Such examples include lobectomies, pneumonectomies, segmentectomies, and wedge resections. Surgical management of NSCLC has developed significantly over the years and continues to evolve to make lung resection a shorter, safer and less traumatic approach, while offering the best oncologic resection adapted to the specific NSCLC stage.
The introduction of minimally invasive techniques such as Video-Assisted Thorascopic Surgery (VATS), Robot-Assisted Thorascopic Surgery (RATS), surgical staplers have gained considerable attention over the years and have shown to reduce post-operative complications, though scepticism lies with the oncologic effectiveness compared to open-approach surgery. While these novel techniques have emerged over the past decades, Lobectomy remains the preferred surgical approach due to better survival rates, though, sublobular resections have recently gained significant interest. The applications of these surgical techniques have warranted the necessity to reassess risk factors, safety and outcomes in NSCLC surgery.
Frontiers in Surgery has organized an article collection in our Thoracic Surgery section on, 'Assessing the Safety of Thoracic Surgical techniques for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer' in aim to improve the clinical management of patients through promotion of innovative research findings in thoracic surgical practices today. For this reason, all article types accepted by Frontiers are encouraged.
This Research Topic will highlight comparative analyses for various NSCLC surgical approaches, in safety, effectiveness and survival. Notable sub-topics include:
- Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS)
- Lobectomy versus Sublobular resections
- Stapler methods in segmentectomy