Thoracic Oncologic Surgery: Current Progress and Future Directions

Dear Colleagues,

Lung cancer is one of the most prevalent and deadliest cancers worldwide, with an incidence of over 2.2 million cases in 2020. It is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality for both men and women, resulting in over 1.8 million deaths annually. Surgery remains the treatment of choice for eligible patients, offering the best prognosis.

Over the last two decades, advances in both surgical and anesthetic techniques have allowed for a minimally invasive surgical oncological approach in the management of lung cancer. Therefore, as technology continues to develop and improve and as thoracic surgeons gain more experience and expertise, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) as well as robot-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) are becoming more prevalent and established.

The journal Medicina is launching a Special Issue titled “Thoracic Oncologic Surgery: Current Progress and Future Directions", with the goal of gathering together and presenting an update on the current progress and future developments in thoracic oncologic surgery.

It is my pleasure to invite you and your colleagues to submit your articles on this topic. We encourage the submission of original, review, and short report articles dealing with current advances in thoracic surgical practice, including the outcomes and efficacy of VATS and RATS, technical challenges faced and overcome, and novel video–thoracoscopic techniques, as well as future improvements in robotic technology. In addition, it would be beneficial to receive reports regarding the introduction, integration, and establishment of thoracoscopic or/and robotic surgery within the current clinical practice.

Dr. Emmanouil Kapetanakis
Guest Editor

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• thoracic surgical oncology
• lung cancer
• thoracic surgery
• video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS)
• robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS)