Lung cancer causes due to various reasons. once it is identified at initial stage it can be cured by surgery.Get to know about types of surgery for lung cancer.

1. Lung cancer Surgery
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2. Lung cancer surgery
• Surgery to remove the cancer may be an option for early stage
non-small cell lung cancer.
• If surgery can be
done(http://lungcancersymptomsx.com/lung-cancer-
surgery.html), it provides the best chance to cure NSCLC.
• Lung cancer surgery is a complex operation that can have
serious consequences, so it should be done by a surgeon who
has a lot of experience operating on lung cancers.
• Other tests will check the function of your heart and other
organs to be sure you’re healthy enough for surgery.

4. Types of lung surgery
• There are so many operation which helps to
treat non-small cell lung cancer.
• This surgery can cure the cancer depends on
its stage.
• Pneumonectomy surgery removes an entire
lung. This might be needed if the tumor is
close to the center of the chest.

6. • The other surgery is called Lobectomy . The lungs are made
up of 5lobes .
• Three on the right and two on the left.
• In this surgery, the entire lobe containing the tumor(s) is
removed. This is often the preferred type of operation for
NSCLC if it can be done.

8. • This type of surgery is called segmentecmony and is also
called as wedge resection.
• In these surgeries, only part of a lobe is removed.
• This approach might be used, for example, if a person doesn’t
have enough lung function to withstand removing the whole
lobe.

10. • This operation is called sleeve resection which is used to treat
some cancers in large airways in the lungs.
• The large airway with a tumor as similar to the sleeve of a
shirt with a stain a couple of inches above the wrist.
• The sleeve resection would be like cutting across the sleeve
above and below the stain and then sewing the cuff back onto
the shortened sleeve.
• A surgeon may be able to do this operation instead of a
pneumonectomy to preserve more lung function.

12. Video thoracic surgery
• Doctors treat early-stage lung cancers in the outer parts of the
lung with a procedure called video-assisted thoracic surgery.
• During this operation, a thin, rigid tube with a tiny video
camera on the end is placed through a small cut in the side of
the chest to help the surgeon see inside the chest on a TV
monitor.
• One of the incisions is enlarged if a lobectomy or
pneumonectomy is done to allow the specimen to be
removed.
• This would cause less pain after surgery and less hospital stay

14. Possible risk on surgery
• Possible side effects (http://lungcancersymptomsx.com/long-
term-side-effects-of-chemotherapy-for-lung-cancer.html)
during and soon after surgery can include reactions to
anesthesia, excess bleeding, blood clots in the legs or lungs,
wound infections, and pneumonia.
• Recovering from surgery takes time from weeks to month.
• People who have VATS instead of thoracotomy tend to have
less pain after surgery and to recover more quickly.

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