Chinese thoracic surgery teams are among the most experienced in the world in lung cancer surgery — single-port VATS and robotic lobectomy were pioneered and refined at scale here. National low-dose CT screening programs have dramatically increased early-stage lung cancer detection, and multidisciplinary care combining surgery, oncology and radiotherapy is standard at leading thoracic centers, giving international patients access to complete lung-cancer treatment pathways.
Through one 3–4 cm incision, the team removes the diseased lobe with complete lymph-node dissection — less pain, faster discharge and radicality equivalent to open surgery for early-stage lung cancer. Many international patients fly home within a week.
Tianjin Medical University General Hospital — Department of Lung Cancer Surgery
Locally advanced tumors that were once called 'inoperable' are downstaged with neoadjuvant chemo-immunotherapy and then radically resected by a thoracic-oncology board — a pathway that has saved many patients with stage III disease.
Tianjin Medical University General Hospital
Tracheal and carinal tumors require removal and rebuilding of the central airway during the operation itself — a procedure only a handful of centers dare to perform, supported here by dedicated thoracic anesthesia and ICU teams.
Tianjin Medical University General Hospital
