RT Book, Section
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
SR Print(0)
ID 1170411019
T1 Image-Guided Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (iVATS) for Early Lung Cancer
T2 Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery, 3e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260026931
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1170411019
RD 2023/03/25
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