Study protocol for VIdeo assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy versus conventional Open LobEcTomy for lung cancer, a UK multicentre randomised controlled trial with an internal pilot (the VIOLET study)

Study protocol for VIdeo assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy versus conventional Open LobEcTomy for lung cancer, a UK multicentre randomised controlled trial with an internal pilot (the VIOLET study)

Introduction Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide and surgery remains the main treatment for early stage disease. Prior to the introduction of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), lung resection for cancer was undertaken through an open thoracotomy. To date, the evidence...

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Main Authors: Tim Batchelor, Babu Naidu, Chris A Rogers, Jane Blazeby, Alan Kirk, Paula Rogers, Stacey Stewart, Syed Qadri, Fiona Strachan, Sarah Wordsworth, Susan J Dutton, Arjun Nair, Amy Kerr, Rajesh Shah, Lisa Jones, Elizabeth A Stokes, Mark Ainsworth, Kathryn Saunders, Daisy Elliott, Rosie Harris, Sangeetha Paramasivan, Tom Treasure, Martyn Cain, Eric Lim, Michael Shackcloth, Joel Dunning, Niall McGonigle, Tim Brush, Lucy Dabner, Holly E Mckeon, Dawn Phillips, Holly Mckeon, Chloe Beard, Alba Realpe Rojas, Elizabeth Stokes, Andrew G Nicholson, Sofina Begum, Simon Jordan, Paulo De Sousa, Monica Tavares Barbosa, Eveline Internullo, Rakesh Krishnadas, Gianluca Casali, Doug West, Karen Bobruk, Catherine O’Donovan, Louise Flintoff, Amelia Lowe, Joanna Nicklin, Emma Heron, Jo Chambers, Becky Houlihan, Laura Beacham, Heather Hudson, Katy Tucker, Toni Farmery, Danielle Davis, Mike Shackcloth, Julius Asante-Siaw, Susannah Love, Sarah Feeney, Lindsey Murphy, Almudena Duran Rosas, Andrea Young, Ian Paul, Hyder Latif, Charlotte Jacobs, Alison Chilvers, Edward Stephenson, Nazalie Iqbal, Vladimir Anikin, Claire Prendergast, Hazem Fallouh, Maninder Kalkat, Richard Steyn, Nicola Oswald, Charlotte Ferris, Jo Webb, Joanne Taylor, Hollie Bancroft, Salma Kadiri, Zara Jalal Senior, Elizabeth Belcher, Dionisios Stavroulias, Francesco Di Chiara, May Havinden-Williams, Mahmoud Loubani, Karen Dobbs, Paul Atkin, Dominic Fellowes, Leanne Cox, Vipin Zamvar, Ruth Langley, Joy Adamson, Ian Hunt, Peter B Licht, Chris Hall, Mike Cowen, Keith Kerr, Nagmi Qureshi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2019-10-01
Series:BMJ Open
Online Access:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/10/e029507.full

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