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Surgery for Lung Cancer & Undiagnosed Lung Masses

If the lung tumor is near the large windpipes, the surgeon will use a bronchoscope to look the main airways to make sure that the tumor can be removed. This takes about 10 minutes and is done while the patient is under general anesthesia. Next, if cancer is likely and mediastinoscopy has not been performed, the patient has a small incision made at the base of the neck and a lighted tube is inserted next to the windpipe. Through this tube, lymph nodes can be sampled to make sure that tumor has not spread to them.

Then the patient will undergo an operation to remove the lump. If the tumor is benign or if the patients breathing capacity is too poor to undergo a standard lung cancer operation, only the lump is removed with a margin of healthy tissue around it.

• Removing the lung cancer
• Palliating the lung cancer
• Minimally invasive lobectomy