@article{ATM27452,
author = {Hongbin Zhang and Jens Carsten Rueckert},
title = {Advocate the implementation of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy program for early stage lung cancer treatment: time to transfer from why to how},
journal = {Annals of Translational Medicine},
volume = {7},
number = {Suppl 6},
year = {2019},
keywords = {},
abstract = {Doctor Yang et al. (1) did a retrospective analysis of the National Cancer Data Base including a huge number of patients from thousands of hospitals in the United States receiving lobectomy for an early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). As a national database, it essentially has an extraordinary multi-institutional spectrum, they compared patient characteristics, short-term and long-term 5 years survival results between the video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) group and open thoracotomy group using the propensity score system to reduce the selection bias.},
issn = {2305-5847}, url = {https://atm.amegroups.org/article/view/27452}
}