Video-assisted thoracic lobectomy for lung cancer in Italy: the 'VATS Group' Project. (December 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Crisci, Roberto; Droghetti, Andrea; Migliore, Marcello; Bertani, Alessandro; Gonfiotti, Alessandro; Solli, Piergiorgio
• Is Part Of: Future oncology. Volume 12(2016)Supplement 23
• Page Start: 9
• Page End: 11
• Publication Date: 2016-12
• Subjects: lung cancer -- lobectomy -- lung resection -- multicenter study -- VATS; Oncology -- Periodicals; 616.99405
• DOI: 10.2217/fon-2016-0466
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1479-6694

Abstract

As part of the third Mediterranean Symposium in Thoracic Surgical Oncology, we introduce the Italian VATS Group (http://vatsgroup.org/sito/index.php ). This national collaborative initiative was established in 2013 and started to recruit patients in January 2014; as of July 2016, 3680 patients have been enrolled in the database. Three different video-assisted thoracic surgery approaches have been predominantly used by Italian thoracic surgery centers, 71% of them preferentially adopting a multi-portal approach, with a 20% recorded morbidity. The majority of the cases were stage I adenocarcinomas of the lung. Conversion to open surgery occurred in 9% of the cases. The study suggests video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy as a 'gold standard' for the surgical treatment of early-stage lung cancer in Italy.