Lung cancer treatment. Minimally invasive surgery. VATS. Robotic surgery for lung cancer. 9

Lung cancer treatment. Minimally invasive surgery. VATS. Robotic surgery for lung cancer. 9

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Also very important to know that you do a lot of lung cancer surgery, especially via robotic-assisted and visually assisted thoracoscopic surgery for lung cancer. Again, how do you select patients for the minimally invasive treatment options for lung cancer? Do you prefer the minimally invasive surgery by default? Which patients would benefit more from classical surgical approaches in lung cancer, in your experience? The decision is made on an individual basis. Dr. Jari Rasanen, MD. And, we, in our institution, prefer minimally invasive surgery always when it's considered safe and efficient. There are cases when open classical surgery is still better. Dr. Jari Rasanen, MD. And that's the case when the tumor is big. It's like, let's say more than five centimeters in diameter, and especially if it is growing to the chest wall. So then certainly feel that open surgery is still the best option for the patient. Dr. Jari Rasanen, MD. And then it comes to robotic surgery. So robotic surgery allows expanding the indications for minimally invasive surgery because there are a couple of things that you can do better with the robotic assistance than with ordinary VATS [Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery].