Risk factors for lung cancer.

• Smoking and people exposed to secondhand smoke
• Exposure to carcinogens from occupation and air pollution, such as heavy metal fumes, nickel fumes, asbestos fibers, agricultural chemicals, rock dust, and smog.
• People who have had lung diseases such as tuberculosis and emphysema have a higher risk of developing lung cancer than the general population.
• As age increases, it is more likely to occur in people aged 40 and above.
• congenital

Lung cancer can treat with a single incision endoscopic surgery (Uniportal VATS). 

VATS (Video – Assisted Thoracic Surgery) is a endoscopic surgery of the organs in the chest using a long lens and special long surgical instruments inserted through the space between the ribs without having to widen the ribs. All the instruments are passed through a 3-4 centimeter incision on the posterior edge of the breasts.

This surgery uses advanced surgical techniques. The surgeon must have expertise and experience in 2- and 3-incision endoscopic surgery. This technique is called “uniportal VATS”. Which is different from the previous surgery. Patients will สมัครสมาชิก UFABET วันนี้ รับเครดิตฟรีทุกวัน experience less pain after surgery than 3-incision surgery, and the results of the surgery are no different. With a small wound and no need to cut bone, patients recover quickly and can return to work or their normal daily life faster. The average hospital stay is only 1-3 days.

Single-incision laparoscopic surgery. Can perform surgery for many diseases in the chest.

• Lung cancer
• Thymoma
• Emphyema thoracis
• Recurrent pneumothorax
• Myasthenia gravis
• Malignant pericardial/pleural effusion

Limitations of single-incision laparoscopic surgery

Laparoscopic surgery can replace open surgery for almost. All diseases in the chest. There are limitations in some diseases such as advanced lung cancer, malignant mesothelioma, chronic empyema thoracis.