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Any operation done through small incisions with cameras and long instruments, including robot-assisted surgery; the cancer operation is the same, the wound is smaller.
Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and robotic lobectomy, laparoscopic colectomy and gastrectomy, and robotic prostatectomy and hysterectomy all give equivalent cancer outcomes to open surgery with less pain, shorter stays and fewer wound complications. Exceptions exist (LACC in cervical cancer), so equivalence must be shown per cancer. Robots cost more without proven survival benefit but are now standard in urology and spreading to lung, oesophageal and pancreatic surgery.
Showing the technology this term belongs to: Robotic & minimally invasive surgery.
Shares JCOG0802 / WJOG4607L, Sublobar resection (segmentectomy and wedge), CALGB 140503 (Alliance), Lobectomy.
Shares JCOG0802 / WJOG4607L, CALGB 140503 (Alliance), Resectable stage I to III non-small-cell lung cancer, Lung cancer (all types).
Shares Sublobar resection (segmentectomy and wedge), Lobectomy, Resectable stage I to III non-small-cell lung cancer.
Shares Lobectomy, Resectable stage I to III non-small-cell lung cancer, Lung cancer (all types).
Shares Lobectomy, Resectable stage I to III non-small-cell lung cancer, Lung cancer (all types).
Shares Lobectomy, Resectable stage I to III non-small-cell lung cancer, Lung cancer (all types).
Shares Early cervical cancer and fertility-sparing surgery, Robotic & minimally invasive surgery.
Shares Laparoscopy (keyhole surgery), Surgery for gallbladder cancer: simple versus radical cholecystectomy, re-resection and lymphadenectomy.