Establishing a robotically assisted lung cancer surgery program in a low-volume center: Does a surgeon’s previous experience with video-assisted thoracoscopy affect short-term outcomes?

According to this study, training surgeons with either open or thoracoscopic background experience to perform robotic-assisted lung cancer surgery is safe and does not compromise short-term operative outcomes. This study is a retrospective registry study and has been approved by the Northern Ostrobothnia Research Ethics Committee with license number EETTMK 5/2019; hence, no clinical trial registry number is associated with this study.