Lung cancer is one of the most common malignant tumor,with the high morbidity and mortality, seriously damaging the psychosomatic health of human beings. The diagnosis of lung cancer is not too complicated, however, more than half of patients with the diagnosis of lung cancer often be in medium or late stage. At present, the treatment of lung cancer is still given priority to surgery, and then relys on the comprehensive treatment, such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy and Targeted cancer therapy, etc. The traditional surgery of Lung cancer is open thoracic surgery, which causes large trauma, much hemorrhage and slow recovery. With the development of science and technology and newtype medical equipment, minimally invasive treatment become the main means of cancer treatment in the 21st century. Up to now, minimally invasive treatment of lung cancer are mainly thoracoscopic surgery, with less trauma, faster recovery, less bleeding, eless impacts on cardiopulmonary function,etc, which can reduce the operation risk, improve the patients＇quality of life.

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