TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Image-Guided Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (iVATS) for Early Lung Cancer A1 - Gill, Ritu R. A1 - Lapidot, Moshe A1 - Bueno, Raphael A2 - Sugarbaker, David J. A2 - Bueno, Raphael A2 - Burt, Bryan M. A2 - Groth, Shawn S. A2 - Loor, Gabriel A2 - Wolf, Andrea S. A2 - Williams, Marcia A2 - Adams, Ann Y1 - 2020 N1 - T2 - Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery, 3e AB - Lung cancer is associated with high morbidity and mortality. In 2018, the estimated number of new cases of lung cancer in the United States alone was 234,030 (121,680 in men and 112,350 in women), and the number of deaths was 154,050 (83,550 in men and 70,500 in women).1 The National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), launched in 2002, reported reduced lung-cancer mortality in patients undergoing low-dose computed tomographic (CT) screening.2 The trial enrolled more than 53,000 heavy smokers and reported 20% fewer lung cancer deaths among trial participants in the intervention group.2 However, the majority of nodules detected by CT were benign, requiring interval follow-up or biopsies for definitive diagnosis. As the NELSON trial recently reported, fewer than 1% of newly diagnosed subsolid nodules are malignant, and only 6% of participants with a new subsolid nodule have early lung cancer (adenocarcinoma in situ).3 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/11/08 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1170411019 ER -