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WCLC 2025 | Maximizing access to surgery for lung cancer in resource limited settings
Tomohito Saito, MD, PhD, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan, discusses the need for international partnership to address the inequity of thoracic surgical care worldwide, citing the lack of accurate data on the number of active thoracic surgeons and teams globally. The existing disparity between high-income and low-/middle-income countries underscores the importance of collaboration to bridge this gap. This interview took place at 2025 World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) in Barcelona, Spain.
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My talk highlighted the inequity of thoracic surgical care worldwide. And the fundamental problem here is we still don’t know the number of active thoracic surgeons or thoracic surgical teams there are worldwide. So my presentation visualizes the inequity of thoracic surgical teams worldwide, especially comparing that in high-income countries versus low- and middle-income countries...
My talk highlighted the inequity of thoracic surgical care worldwide. And the fundamental problem here is we still don’t know the number of active thoracic surgeons or thoracic surgical teams there are worldwide. So my presentation visualizes the inequity of thoracic surgical teams worldwide, especially comparing that in high-income countries versus low- and middle-income countries. Then my presentation visualizes the very unequal condition, and international partnership is the only solution for that.
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