Which Extent of Surgical Resection Thoracic Surgeons Would Choose if They Were Diagnosed With an Early-Stage Lung Cancer: A European Survey

This study surveyed 123 thoracic surgeons and posed several questions asking which surgical resection they would prefer if they themselves were diagnosed with several variations of lung cancer size and location. Interestingly, despite two recently published randomized control trials showing the similarities of lobar resections to sublobar resections, for early-stage lung cancer tumors, 19 to 55 percent of surgeons still preferred lobectomy compared to segmentectomy for a variety of reasons including technical expertise as well as oncological concerns. Perhaps this trend may continue to change with time as further research is conducted in this domain.