Socioeconomic, rural, and insurance-based inequities in robotic lung cancer resections

Background: Poor, rural, and underinsured patients with lung cancer experience significant treatment-based disparities. These disparities actually worsen when newer, cutting edge technologies emerge because underserved patients frequently have limited access to these new developments. The robotic surgical technique is a state-of-the-art technology which has proven very beneficial to cancer patients. Unfortunately, it appears that its access is...