Lobectomy or Segmentectomy for Elderly? What’s the Best?

Patients aged more than 80 years are nowadays fitter than 10 years ago, with less comorbidity. During the same period, management practices for lung cancer have changed. We now tend to perform more segmentectomy procedures for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer thanks to technologic advances such as 3-dimensional preoperative planning, and minimally invasive surgery, especially robotic assisted.1