Two surgeons are in charge of outpatient services every Monday and Wednesday and surgical operations.
About half of the operations are performed for lung cancer, whose incidence is increasing in recent years. Among others, spontaneous pneumothorax, mediastinal tumor, and metastatic lung tumor are common as target conditions.
Recently, endoscopic (thoracoscopic) surgery has become widespread in the area of respiratory surgery as in other surgical areas, not only for benign diseases but also for lung cancer, and is used in about 90% of the operations for lung cancer. The surgery has certain advantages: it requires only a small incision, causes less postoperative pain, and can reduce postoperative damage to respiratory functions. Since the surgery decreases the length of hospital stay, patients in their prime can return to work as early as possible. It may be applicable even to patients with pulmonary functions already impaired and to elderly patients.
Advanced lung cancer infiltrating into surrounding organs or metastasizing to lymph nodes remains common, and it is difficult to cure these cases by surgery alone. Fortunately, the NCGG has a series of appropriate medical devices for radiotherapy and advanced medicine such as PET. We are prepared to provide multidisciplinary medicine, in which extensive surgery to concomitantly remove those surrounding organs is combined with radiotherapy and chemotherapy.