Highly-specialized, minimally-invasive surgery for lung cancer allows patient to go home sooner

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 10:28 in Health & Medicine

Minimally-invasive surgery for lung cancer called video-assisted thoracic surgery or VATS is a relatively new procedure performed almost exclusively at academic centers. Now, a preliminary study to be presented this month at the annual CHEST meeting in Philadelphia is giving surgeons an early look at its benefits.

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