”Eating obstruction”! Be highly careful of esophageal cancer! Esophageal cancer is highly prevalent in China, and the incidence rate is more than 20 times that of western countries. Surgery is the most important means to treat esophageal cancer, which can not only remove the cancer radically, but also solve the problem of eating. For a long time, the people’s understanding of esophageal cancer surgery is “open chest”, which means a dozen or even dozens of centimeters of incision, and esophageal cancer surgery, with open chest and open abdomen, has long and many incisions, and is very traumatic. It is obvious, painful and slow to recover. What is minimally invasive surgery for esophageal cancer With the development of science and technology in the world, surgery is becoming minimally invasive, so that patients’ pain can be reduced to the minimum and local lesions can be treated locally as much as possible, which is becoming a reality! Several small holes of about 2cm in length are made in the chest, and optical fibers with camera lens and micro surgical instruments are sent into the chest through the holes respectively, and the location of the lesion can be easily found under the surveillance of TV screen. This is a new method of thoracic surgery – TV thoracoscopic minimally invasive treatment technique. Thoracoscopic surgery is considered to be the biggest technological revolution in the field of thoracic surgery. With the development of thoracoscopic surgery technology, esophageal cancer has also ushered in the “minimally invasive era”. In addition to the advantages of small trauma, light pain, fast recovery and beautiful incision, the TV screen display during the operation has a magnifying effect, which also increases the “vision”, “field of view” and “line of sight” of the surgeon. The TV screen display during the operation has a magnifying effect, which also increases the surgeon’s “vision”, “field of view” and “line of sight”, enlarges the scope of surgery and facilitates intraoperative cooperation. Minimally invasive esophageal cancer surgery is performed under thoracoscopy, which transforms the traditional open incision of more than 25 cm across half of the chest wall into 3 to 4 small holes of about 2 cm in length, and uses minimally invasive endoscopic instruments to perform resection surgery with the assistance of TV monitor, and systematically removes the metastatic enlarged lymph nodes around the thoracic esophagus to ensure the thoroughness of surgical resection and achieve the purpose of surgical cure, and the surgery The operation is less invasive and less bleeding. After the operation, the patient’s pain is obviously reduced, and he can get out of bed early, recover quickly, and eat early, and the postoperative scar is small, and the appearance is less affected, no longer the long and large “centipede” scar after the previous open thoracotomy, and the patient’s quality of life is obviously improved after the operation. The efficacy is the same or even better than traditional open-chest surgery. Advantages and strengths of our minimally invasive treatment for esophageal cancer Thoracoscopic minimally invasive esophageal cancer surgery requires high surgical operation skills of surgeons, which requires higher precision, stability, patience and care compared with traditional open-heart surgery. Thoracic surgeons need to have considerable clinical experience to successfully complete the lumpectomy for esophageal cancer.