Is early ablation or minimally invasive better for lung cancer?

Minimally invasive is usually better than ablation in early stage of lung cancer. Lung cancer is one of the common malignant tumors, and the symptoms are usually not obvious or no symptoms in the early stage, so it is not easy to detect lung cancer in the early stage. As the disease progresses, patients may develop cough, chest pain, hemoptysis and other such symptoms. Minimally invasive surgery is generally preferred in early stage of lung cancer, which can remove the surrounding lymph nodes while removing the primary tumor, and the lesions are generally more thoroughly resected with lower recurrence rate. Ablation therapy is mainly for patients who are unable or unwilling to undergo surgery, usually through thermal ablation or freezing. Killing tumor cells with ablation therapy may leave cancer cells at the cutting edge, resulting in easy recurrence after surgery. Patients with early stage of lung cancer should be diagnosed and treated in time, which is the key to treatment. Patients should not delay the condition and blindly self-medication, but make individualized treatment plan under the guidance of physicians and follow the standard treatment.