Comparison of medium-term survival outcomes between robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery and video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in treating primary lung cancer

• Published in: General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery Vol. 68; no. 9; pp. 984 - 992
• Main Authors: Haruki, Tomohiro, Kubouchi, Yasuaki, Takagi, Yuzo, Kidokoro, Yoshiteru, Matsui, Shinji, Nakanishi, Atsuyuki, Miwa, Ken, Taniguchi, Yuji, Nakamura, Hiroshige
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore Springer Singapore 01.09.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Body mass index; Cardiac Surgery; Cardiology; Chi-square test; Classification; Endoscopy; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Japan - epidemiology; Lung cancer; Lung Neoplasms - mortality; Lung Neoplasms - surgery; Lymphatic system; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; National health insurance; Operative Time; Original Article; Ostomy; Patients; Pneumonectomy - methods; Postoperative Period; Prognosis; Propensity Score; Robotics; Robotics - instrumentation; Surgical Oncology; Surgical outcomes; Survival Rate - trends; Thoracic Surgery; Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted - methods; Time Factors; Tomography; Tumors; Japan; United States > US; Propensity score matching; Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery; Robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery; Survival; Lung cancer

Objectives Robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS) for primary lung cancer has been spreading rapidly in Japan. While RATS has various technical advantages over video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), the quality of surgery from an oncologic viewpoint must be maintained, and the evaluation...