Innovative Surgical Strategies for Thoracic Malignancies
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Methods and Technologies Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 June 2026 | Viewed by 24
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. Claraspital, Basel, Switzerland
Interests: robotic thoracic surgery; uniportal VATS; lung cancer; mesothelioma; mediastinal disease
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Dear Colleagues,
Innovative surgical strategies for thoracic malignancies are rapidly evolving, with minimally invasive approaches having become the ‘standard of care’ over time. Uniportal VATS techniques have widely replaced open surgery as well as multiport VATS. Robotics is also gradually replacing VATS, not only because RATS generally offers improved visualization (i.e., 3D high-definition, stable camera platform, Firefly technology), greater dexterity, and more precise movements compared to VATS, but also because robotics may offer a less steep learning curve compared to uniportal VATS.
Therefore, this Special Issue focuses on how robotics may facilitate surgery in more challenging surgical cases (e.g., after neoadjuvant chemo- +/− immunotherapy +/− radiation) and how these developments have changed the way current and future generations of thoracic surgeons are trained (using robotics as well as AI, VR, 3D models, etc.).
Prof. Dr. Gregor J. Kocher
Dr. Fabrizio Minervini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- robotic thoracic surgery
- RATS
- uRATS
- NSCLC
- thoracic malignancies
- video-assisted thoracic surgery
- VATS
- uVATS
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