Could less be enough: sublobar resection vs lobectomy for clinical stage IA non-small cell lung cancer patients with visceral pleural invasion or spread through air spaces

For early-stage (≤3 cm) NSCLC with VPI or STAS, SLR was associated with worse survival outcomes compared to lobectomy. However, segmentectomy achieved survival outcomes comparable to those of lobectomy. For pT2a (VPI) NSCLC patients with tumor ≤2 cm, the differences in survival outcomes between SLR and lobectomy were not statistically significant.