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The team has extensive surgical experience and training in the best national and international centres in the latest techniques of the speciality.\n\nThe Vithas group specialises in major minimally invasive surgery (VATS surgery), with benefits including avoiding large incisions, less surgical aggression, less postoperative pain, a shorter hospital stay and higher quality of life with better aesthetic results for patients.\n<h3>Why come to our clinic?<\/h3>\nIn our attempt to continue progressing and offer patients the best and most innovative techniques and procedures, at Vithas hospitals lung cancer surgery is performed through a single incision, using a technique called \u201csingle-port\u201d. 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