Surgical treatment of lung cancer treatment, with the exception of Phase III and IV b, should seek treatment or surgical treatment for lead, according to different stages and pathological tissue types, add radiotherapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy for the treatment. While small cell lung cancer treatment indications, the program continued to be amended improve clinical practice. Lung cancer surgery on the survival, the survival rate of domestic reports for 2003 ranged from 40% to 60%; Five-year survival rate was 22.9% and 44.3%, the operative mortality below 3%.

(1) Case has chosen the following conditions, as a general surgical treatment of choice targets. One or distant metastasis (M0), including real organs, such as the liver, brain, adrenal gland, bone, lymph nodes and chest outside. 2. Cancer of the thoracic organs within or adjacent to the proliferation of organizations, such as the aorta, the superior vena cava, and esophageal cancer and pleural effusion. 3. No recurrent laryngeal nerve, phrenic nerve palsy. 4. No serious heart and lung functions of the lower or angina author of the near future. 5. No severe liver and kidney diseases and serious diabetes. With the following conditions, should generally be made cautiously surgery or require further examination and treatment: (a) failure of the elderly, heart, lung function poor. (2) small cell lung cancer in addition to Phase I, prior to chemotherapy or radiotherapy, and then determine whether surgery. (3) x-see, in addition to the primary tumor and mediastinal metastases also several suspicious.

(2) exploratory thoracotomy surgery without any indication of taboo levy, clear diagnosis of lung cancer or highly suspected lung cancer, according to the specific circumstances set out in section I of this chapter selection procedure. If found with resectable lesions beyond the scope, but still with the original cancer are advised to resection of the primary tumor, it is called a reduction surgery, but for the whole principle lung resection for the treatment of postoperative adjuvant other.

(3) after lung cancer surgery and a meaning. Palliative resection (P): The surgical resection, there are still remnants of pleural cancer (histopathology confirmed), or total excision surgery that, as normal bronchial stump naked eye observation, but there are residual cancer cells under the microscope, known as palliative resection.