Third National Thoracic Surgery - Activity & Outcomes Report (2018)

Third National Thoracic Surgery - Activity & Outcomes Report (2018)

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    ISBN 978-0-9929942-2-8

Dendrite Clinical Systems and the Society for Cardiothoracic surgery (SCTS) published the third iteration of National Thoracic Surgery - Activity & Outcomes Report that demonstrates importance collecting and analysing data from thoracic surgery. The report states that a large increase in thoracoscopic (VATS) resections is responsible for most of the recent increase in lung cancer surgery, rising from 749 cases in 2010-2011 to 2,753 in 2014-2015, an increase of more than 3.5 times. By 2014-2015, 40% of lobectomies and more than 50% of sublobar resections were performed by VATS.