Table 4. Treatment characteristics of patients with a NSCLC in the DLCA-S in 2016 (N=1,979).
| Characteristics | N | % |
|---|---|---|
| Surgical approach | ||
| VATS/RATS | 1,409 | 71.2 |
| Converted to open | 263 | 18.7 |
| Primary thoracotomy | 479 | 24.2 |
| Different/unknown | 91 | 4.6 |
| Resection type | ||
| Pneumonectomy | 166 | 8.4 |
| (Bi)lobectomy | 1,618 | 81.8 |
| Anatomic segment resection | 55 | 2.8 |
| Wedge / different | 127 | 6.4 |
| No resection (open-close) | 13 | 0.7 |
VATS, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery; RATS, robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery; DLCA, Dutch Lung Cancer Audit; S, surgical-oncologists; NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer.