Early stage lung cancer patients who meet the surgical index can undergo surgery, but surgery is not recommended for late stage patients or those who are physically weak.
Surgery is a more important and crucial means to treat lung cancer. For 80 years old lung cancer patients, if they are in early stage, in good physical condition, without heart, liver and other basic diseases, they can be treated with radical surgery, which can help to improve the overall cure rate.
However, if the patients are in the middle or late stage or in poor physical condition, who can hardly bear the damage caused by surgery, they can not take surgical treatment, and it is recommended to prolong the survival cycle by means of radiotherapy, chemotherapy and targeted therapy; if the situation improves in the late stage, then surgical resection can be considered.