Is video-assisted thoracic lobectomy safe and successful for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer?

摘要

We read with interest the recent article by Villamizar and colleagues.1 Their background is that video-assisted thoracoscopic surgical (VATS) lobectomy has been advocated as the criterion standard for early stages of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but its role in locally advanced stages remains to be determined. They therefore focused on patients treated with VATS lobectomy who had tumor size greater than 3 cm, central location, or nodal involvement to determine the predictive impact of these factors on perioperative morbidity. They compared the data from these patients with data from patients who had tumor size smaller than 3 cm, peripheral location, or NO stage.