★ A fun and engaging health guide combining professional medical knowledge with cute illustrations, making lung nodules less scary.
★ The vast majority of lung nodules are benign. Even among the small minority that are malignant, most can be managed with long-term observation without immediate surgery. This book distills practical experience from real clinical practice.
★ Authored by Dr. Hong Yingcai, Chief Physician of Thoracic Surgery at Shenzhen People's Hospital. With over 10,000 outpatient visits and 1,000 surgeries annually, he specializes in the differential diagnosis of lung nodules and extreme minimally invasive surgery.
★ Features 100 common questions about lung nodules, accompanied by videos recorded by the author, explaining the facts about lung nodules in a relaxed and accessible way.

With the widespread use of chest CT screening, more and more people are seeing the words "lung nodules" on their check-up reports, followed by panic, anxiety, and a frantic search for medical help. The author has witnessed countless such cases in his clinic: some are so terrified by the claim that a 5mm ground-glass nodule "might become cancerous" that they undergo repeated CT scans, while others miss the chance for early detection because they have no symptoms.

This book aims to solve exactly that problem. It progresses from basic concepts to clinical practice, systematically sorting out the classification, causes, diagnostic methods, and treatment strategies for lung nodules. It details the indications and risks of conservative observation, surgical resection, and ablation therapy, incorporating a wealth of real clinical cases.

Hong Yingcai
Chief Physician of Thoracic Surgery at Shenzhen People's Hospital, Doctor of Medicine, and Senior Expert in Lung Nodules. He specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of ground-glass nodules, mixed nodules, and solid nodules, and is skilled in extreme minimally invasive surgery and postoperative rapid recovery for lung nodules and lung cancer. He handles over 10,000 outpatient visits and performs over 1,000 surgeries annually. He has hosted or participated in more than 10 national, provincial, and municipal research projects, published over 30 high-quality papers in SCI and domestic/international journals, edited or co-edited 10 monographs, and obtained 14 utility model patents.