Mamdouh Al-Amri receives the Lung Cancer Society scholarship in 2023

Justification

In the hype of oncology treatment, it’s easy to forget that there is a life-saving treatment that can cure lung cancer. Thoracic surgery has evolved and improved significantly in recent years through the increasing use of minimally invasive surgical techniques. VATS, video-assisted thoracoscopy, and RATS, a robot-assisted multi- or single-door surgical technique, are examples of these techniques. For patients, these methods mean faster operating time and faster recovery time, as well as less pain and fewer complications. Through minimally invasive techniques, there is also the possibility of offering surgery to frail patients and patients with complex tumors in the long term.

The Lung Cancer Society is therefore pleased to award the 2023 Lung Cancer Scholarship to Mamdouh Al-Amirithoracic surgeon at Karolinska University Hospital and Maja Landenheide-Smith, thoracic surgeon at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, for their efforts in thoracic surgery.

Mamdouh Al-Amiri received his doctorate in 2018 from the Karolinska Institutet for the thesis “Lung resection for malignant tumors“On, among other things, VAT and the advantages of the method.

Maya Landenheide-Smith and her colleagues were the first in Scandinavia to perform robot-assisted single-door surgery, RATS, for lung cancer in which the robot enters through just one surgical wound.