 Today, we are discussing an important approach in cancer surgery which is known as VATS. VATS stands for Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery. This is an approach which is minimally invasive and which is employed for various indications for operations in the thoracic cavity. If we talk of the common indication of VATS, these include the localized and the locally advanced cancers of lung metastasis to the lung from the various organs of the body namely the colon, the kidney and the testicular cancers. If we talk of the benefit of VATS surgery, traditionally if we talk the surgery used to be performed by an open approach which used to include large incision with cutting of ribs with extensive blood loss which leads to severe post-operative pain in the patients. With the VATS approach, the incisions have gone down, have become smaller and only by a 3 to 4 cm of incision with a good camera and a thoracoscopic system, we can achieve an equally good, equally fast and equally safe surgery. VATS surgery entails very minimal blood loss and patients recovery is much faster which can be 1 to 2 days prior to an open surgery. The amount of blood loss patients have is reduced which leads to better post-operative outcomes and obviously with lesser stay, lesser pain medication, the cost of surgery comes down considerably. We have been performing VATS thoracoscopic surgery for last 8 to 10 years and in our experience, we have been fortunate to have very low morbidity rates and almost negligible mortality rates. So it is our endeavour at Central International Hospitals that we perform a safe and cost-effective thoracoscopic VATS surgery for the lung cancers, the metastasis and the esophageal cancers to name a few. Thank you.