Today, on my way from work, I met a patient who was just discharged from the hospital after surgery in January. When I saw him, the first thing that came to my mind was that he was a friend I knew well, but at once I did not think that he was my patient. Because he was neatly dressed and had an extraordinary temperament, and his energy was very good, people who were not aware of this would not have thought that he had just been seen by me more than a month ago, and that I had just performed thoracoscopic radical lung cancer surgery on him. He was discharged from the hospital more than a month ago and I still remember him as wearing hospital clothes. When he called me Director Ren, it occurred to me that he was a patient of mine (and of course now a friend). After some pleasantries, I looked at him with great energy and confidence, and asked him what discomfort he had. I said you look younger than before, you can’t tell that you are already 50 years old. Six months before the operation, a nodule was found in his lung during a physical examination at his workplace, and the nodule was found to have increased in size (from 1 cm in diameter to about 1.3 cm) during a review in January. He was in a good mental state before the surgery and was the first in his family to know about his condition. I told him that even if it was lung cancer, it was very early and the outcome after surgery was still very good. And nowadays, the surgery is performed in a minimally invasive way: thoracoscopic radical lung cancer surgery. The damage is minimal and the recovery is fast. Perhaps because of his higher knowledge and quick acceptance, our treatment measures went smoothly and he cooperated very well. He recovered very well after the operation and was strolling in the corridor of the ward on the second day after the operation and wanted to be discharged on the fifth day. Of course, the postoperative pathology confirmed the diagnosis of stage 1 adenocarcinoma of the lung. Because it was very early stage, chemotherapy was not needed. Later, he took a few patches of Chinese medicine at our oncology clinic. He told me that he recovered so fast because he was determined to ask for surgery, adjusted his mentality in time and actively cooperated with the treatment. I smiled and nodded my head, thinking that the benefits of minimally invasive thoracoscopic surgery to patients are really different. After thoracoscopic surgery was carried out in recent years, it was obvious that nurses in the ward felt that post-operative patient care was much easier, and there was no need to give pain relief injections every day. With the advancement of lumpectomy technology and equipment, we now use minimally invasive thoracoscopic surgery for more than 70% of lung and esophageal cancer patients, which is a blessing to patients and medical staff.