Quality of Life and Pain Outcomes Following Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) Anatomic Lung Resection Versus Thoracotomy and Anatomic Lung Resection

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Thoracotomy

Quality of Life

Video-assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS)

Lung Cancer

Treatments

Behavioral: questionnaires

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00598000

05-006

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to see if different types of surgery for lung cancer have different effects on quality of life and pain. What we learn from this study may help us find new ways to improve the quality of life of lung cancer patients who have surgery.

Enrollment

216 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients with histologically confirmed or suspected clinical stage I non small cell lung cancer (including carcinoid tumors) based on standard staging (CT, PET, ± mediastinoscopy).
Patients offered a VATS anatomic lung resection or a standard, posterolateral thoracotomy and anatomic lung resection at MSKCC.
Patients cannot have had prior therapy, including surgery for the current lesion, systemic chemotherapy or external beam radiotherapy.
KPS ≥ 70.
Synchronous primaries within one lobe.

Exclusion criteria

Patients who have already undergone the planned operation.
Patients who cannot tolerate segmentectomy or lobectomy.
Patients with locally advanced or metastatic disease found either preoperatively or at the time of operation.
Patients who are non- English speaking
Patients with multi-focal disease
Patients with con-current cancers
Patients with benign disease.
Patients who are unwilling or unable to return to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for postoperative follow-up for the first year following their operation.