West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), APOCP's West Asia Chapter. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 1513-7368 14 5 2013 05 01 Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery for Treatment of Earlystage Non-small Cell Lung Cancer 2871 2877 27710 EN Journal Article 1970 01 01 Objectives: To evaluate the safety, efficacy, and invasiveness of lobectomy by video-assisted thoracoscopicsurgery (VATS) in the treatment of stage I/II non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods: A total of 148patients presenting with Stage I or II NSCLC were enrolled into our study, comprising 71 who underwent VATSand 77 patients undergoing conventional thoracotomic lobectomy, in combination with systematic lymph noderesection. Results: It was found that VATS was superior to conventional thoracotomy in terms of the durationof surgery, intraoperative blood loss, frequency of the need to administer postoperative analgesia, thoracicintubation indwelling time, post-operative hospital stay, and survival rate (P<0.05). We saw no obvious differencein the number of resected lymph nodes with either approach. Conclusions: VATS lobectomy is a safe and reliablesurgical approach for the treatment of Stage I/II NSCLC, characterized by significantly minimal invasiveness,rapid post-operative recovery, and markedly lower loss of blood.

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