title: Thoracic surgery in India: challenges and opportunities.
abstract: India has the dubitable honor of being ranked first in the world with regards to lung disease burden. A good proportion of this disease burden is amenable to surgical treatment. However, patients have limited access to quality thoracic surgical care due to a number of obstacles. This review article summarizes these obstacles and the implied opportunities that exist in this nascent surgical discipline in the world's second most populous country.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA;; Department of Surgery, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Sai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yendamuri
keywords: India; Thoracic surgery; lung surgery