# Quality of Life and Pain Outcomes Following Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) Anatomic Lung Resection Versus Thoracotomy and Anatomic Lung Resection

> **NCT00598000** · — · COMPLETED · sponsor: **Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center** · enrollment: 216 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Lung Cancer
- Quality of Life
- Video-assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS)
- Thoracotomy

## Interventions

- **BEHAVIORAL:** questionnaires
- **BEHAVIORAL:** questionnaires

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00598000
- **Lead sponsor:** Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** —
- **Study type:** OBSERVATIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2005-02
- **Primary completion:** 2015-04
- **Final completion:** 2015-04
- **Target enrollment:** 216 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2015-04-23


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00598000

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00598000, "Quality of Life and Pain Outcomes Following Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) Anatomic Lung Resection Versus Thoracotomy and Anatomic Lung Resection". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-07-20 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00598000. Licensed CC0.

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