Q: Can I have lung cancer surgery with a small incision? A: N+3 years ago, one day, Dr. X asked: “Teacher, I heard the professor say: small incision is not suitable for lung cancer surgery!” The patient also heard about it and also came to ask so!” Dr. Z also said that some patients and family members had heard that “small incisions are not suitable for lung cancer surgery!” ”Small incision open chest actually does not really open the chest enough, the field of vision is so limited, how to do open chest surgery?” ”Small incision, how can you do surgery when you can’t even put your hand in?” ”Small incisions are not successful in general thoracic surgery, let alone lung cancer surgery!” ”I haven’t heard of anyone using small incisions for lung cancer surgery! No one has ever succeeded!” ”So by now, if you go around the ward and take a look, you will know that even relatively simple thoracic surgeries like pneumothorax and pulmonary alveoli have to be done with large incisions and open chests!” ”Not to mention that lung cancer surgery is much more complicated than pneumothorax or alveolus surgery, and you have to contour the lymph nodes! How is a small incision possible?” ”In fact, with a large incision, it’s not even easy to do lung cancer surgery, and sometimes you have to cut off the ribs; how can you do surgery with a small incision when you can’t even put your hand in? How can the mediastinal lymph nodes be cut cleanly?”