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WCLC 2025 | Prioritizing patient selection for lung cancer surgery in LMICs
Tomohito Saito, MD, PhD, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan, gives an overview of selecting low-risk patients with early-stage lung cancer for surgical care, and also highlights the potential benefits of training young surgeons in managing infectious diseases such as tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This approach can help address the shortage of thoracic surgeons in these regions. This interview took place at 2025 World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) in Barcelona, Spain.
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So we need to educate the thoracic surgeons where the active thoracic surgeon is scarce. So we need to select the low-risk patients, early-stage lung cancer patients, who benefit most from the surgical care. So we need to start from there. And in low-income countries and in middle-income countries, there are more patients with tuberculosis or some infectious diseases. So those diseases may be beneficial for the experience of the young surgeons...
So we need to educate the thoracic surgeons where the active thoracic surgeon is scarce. So we need to select the low-risk patients, early-stage lung cancer patients, who benefit most from the surgical care. So we need to start from there. And in low-income countries and in middle-income countries, there are more patients with tuberculosis or some infectious diseases. So those diseases may be beneficial for the experience of the young surgeons.
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