Surgery is usually offered when the cancer is in just one of your lungs and your general health is otherwise good. The aim of the surgery is nearly always cure.
For more information on different types of surgery, visit the Macmillan Charity website.
We have created this video guide to the process you can typically expect if surgery is recommended for you:
These can usually be treated successfully with medicine.
Occasionally further treatments are required after surgery for your lung cancer such as radiotherapy or chemotherapy, but we won't know this until your surgical biopsies have returned a few weeks after your surgery. The team here in Bradford will keep you informed of these results and let you know if further treatment is required.
There is plenty of online advice available about your recovery after lung cancer surgery. One good source of advice is here on the Cancer Research UK charity website.
Your lung cancer nurse specialist team can answer any questions or concerns you have and help you to make any decisions you're unsure about. Please don't hesitate to contact them. These are the contact details you need:
You are usually admitted on the actual day of your surgery and are asked to attend Ward J84 at St James’ Hospital. All the information and links you need to get to the hospital can be found here on their site: https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/patients-visitors/patient-and-visitor-information/getting-to-hospital/
You can contact us using the Relay UK app. Textphone users will need to dial 18001 ahead of the number to be contacted.
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a smoke-free organisation. You are not permitted to smoke or in use e-cigarettes in any of the hospital buildings or grounds.
