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Treatment of Early Stage Lung Cancer by VATS Versus OPEN Lobectomy
NCT01933828 · Radboud University Medical Center · Updated 8 Nov 2013
- What is being tested
- OPEN lobectomy; VATS lobectomy; ROBOT-assisted lobectomy
- For
- Lung Cancer
- Kind of study
- Tests a treatment or device on volunteers. No drug phase (a device or procedure study).
- Who can join
- Ages 18 years and older. About 176 people. The full rules are on the registry page.
- Where
- Netherlands
- When
- Starts or started June 2013, ends June 2015. Registered 2 Sept 2013.
- Results
- None posted yet.
In the researchers' words
In patients with early stage lung cancer surgical lobectomy is the treatment of choice. A resection by Video-assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) is probably superior to an open procedure by thoracotomy for patients with early stage lung cancer, but randomized evidence for superiority is lacking. Furthermore, VATS lobectomy has not gained broad implementation yet. The objective of this study is to assess the benefits of VATS- over open lobectomy regarding quality of life and costs in a prospective randomized controlled multicenter trial. All patients meeting the inclusion criteria that are not randomized will be included in a prospective Cohort.
Sites
- Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Department of Cardio-thoracic SurgeryNijmegen, Netherlands