Guest Editor: Todd Demmy, MD, FACS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA
Currently, the outline of this focused issue is as follows.Definitions of Advanced Disease and Associated Survival after VATS Resection
Vadim G. Pischik /Russia VATS for Advanced T Status (Large tumors, Mediastinal Invasion and Vascular control)
Diego Gonzalez Rivas /Spain VATS for Central Airway Tumors
Ryoichi Nakanishi /Japan Lymph Node Dissection and Staging, the Munich Experience
Johannes Bodner /Germany Lymph Node Dissection and Staging, the Southampton Approach
Khalid Amer/ UK VATS and Advance N status (N1+Tumors)
Paul C. Lee /USA VATS Pneumonectomy
Mark W. Hennon /USA VATS Chest Wall Resection
Thomas Anthony D'Amico/USA VATS for Pleural Disease
David A. Waller / UK Radiation Therapy and VATS
Mark F. Berry /USA Chemotherapy and VATS
Michael S. Mulligan/USA Thoracoscopic Lung Suffusion, and other Regional Therapies for Locally advanced disease
Todd Demmy/USA
Vadim G. Pischik /Russia
Diego Gonzalez Rivas /Spain
Ryoichi Nakanishi /Japan
Johannes Bodner /Germany
Khalid Amer/ UK
Paul C. Lee /USA
Mark W. Hennon /USA
Thomas Anthony D'Amico/USA
David A. Waller / UK
Mark F. Berry /USA
Michael S. Mulligan/USA
Todd Demmy/USA