Relevance and justification of sublobar resection in early peripheral non-small cell lung cancer in the era of dominance of lobectomy

Abstract

Surgical treatment of lung cancer dates back to 1933, when the first pneumonectomy was performed to treat this disease. In 1952 pneumonectomy was replaced by lobectomy, which is currently the recognized global standard for operable NSCLC. Modern medical science has accumulated a huge body of clinical data, which allowed us to start a new milestone in the evolution of the surgical treatment of lung tumors, namely, a decrease in the volume of the resection stage of the operation in some early forms of peripheral lung cancer. The article analyzes the results of a number of large-scale works presented in the world literature on this topic.