Experts are in agreement that one of the most important developments for mesothelioma is the increasing use of 3-Dimensional video-assisted surgery.
Dr. Marcelo DaSilva, Chief of Thoracic Surgery at Loyola University Medical Center and Professor of Surgery at the Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago, and one of the experts who focuses much of his efforts on mesothelioma has said that whereas before, surgeons could see either left/right, or up/down, this system now gives surgeons greater clarity into the lungs and pleura.
In 2013, in Illinois, Dr. DaSilva used 3-D surgery for the first time when he performed surgery on a lung cancer patient to remove the lower lobe of the right lung. With 3-D surgery, the surgeon wears 3-D goggles and gets a much better view of the anatomy and it improves the surgeon’s hand-eye coordination. In addition, he says that the fact that the surgery is minimally invasive means that there is less pain, faster recovery and smaller scars than open surgery.
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