Early symptoms of lung cancer How to treat early lung cancer Minimally invasive thoracoscopic surgery Minimally invasive thoracoscopic surgery for early lung cancer Early symptoms of lung cancer How to treat early lung cancer Minimally invasive thoracoscopic surgery With the continuous changes of our living environment, the incidence of lung cancer is increasing. Proper understanding of lung cancer and knowledge about lung cancer can improve people’s awareness of lung cancer prevention and treatment. The so-called tumor is a new organism formed by the proliferation and abnormal differentiation of normal cells in the organism under the action of different factors. Tumors are divided into benign tumors and malignant tumors. Lung cancer is a malignant tumor of the lung, which is also known as cancer. Lung cancer is not easy to be detected in early stage, fast growth rate, unrestricted growth, devastating to itself and surrounding tissues and organs, easy to recur and metastasize after surgery, etc. Therefore, its efficacy and prognosis are poor, resulting in many misconceptions about cancer, and even extreme fear of cancer and talk about cancer. If patients or family members cannot understand cancer correctly, it will be detrimental to the treatment of the disease. Cancer ≠ terminal illness Some patients or family members are overly afraid of lung cancer, thinking that lung cancer is an incurable disease and is a death sentence. In fact, this is not true. Malignant tumors can occur in many parts of the body, and the curative effect and prognosis of malignant tumors in different parts are different. For example, the five-year survival rate of breast cancer and thyroid cancer is very high after treatment, and some thyroid cancer patients can even live with tumor for a long time. ②The efficacy and prognosis of malignant tumors in the same site are different with different stages. For example, the clinical cure rate of early gastric cancer and early small liver cancer is significantly higher than that of late stage tumors and can survive for a long time. ③The prognosis of different pathological types of the same tumor is also different. For example, papillary carcinoma in thyroid cancer has a better prognosis and higher survival rate than undifferentiated carcinoma. Therefore, people should not simply think that cancer is a terminal disease, but should face it correctly and take scientific and regular treatment after suffering from malignant tumor. Cancer recurrence ≠ surgery failure With the deepening of basic and clinical research on lung cancer, there are more and more treatment methods for lung cancer, such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, endocrine therapy, immunotherapy and so on. Surgery is only one part of the whole treatment process. After the surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy or other adjuvant treatments are usually required. Whether a tumor recurs or not is related to the pathological type of the tumor, the stage of the tumor, the treatment plan of the tumor, etc. Therefore, the recurrence of tumor does not mean the failure of surgery. Family members with lung cancer do not necessarily get lung cancer themselves Current research shows that most tumors are not the result of one factor alone, including genetic factors. Other factors such as endocrine factors, chemical factors in the environment (such as certain carcinogenic substances or certain drugs), physical factors (such as ultraviolet light) and biological factors (such as viral infection) are also related to the development of cancer. Therefore, having a lung cancer patient in your family does not mean you will definitely get cancer too. As long as you pay attention to comprehensive prevention and avoid various risk factors, as well as regular health check-ups, you can reduce the risk of cancer.