Abstract:Objective To explore the clinical effects of different nutritional treatments on lung cancer patients undergoing postoperative chemotherapy. Methods From July 2015 to December 2017, 754 patients in the primary screening group who underwent lung cancer surgery and post-operative chemotherapy in the the department of cardiothoracic surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College were selected as the study subjects. The effects of nutritional therapies which included enteral nutrition and enteral nutrition combined with parenteral nutrition on their nutritional status, immune function and complications were observed. Relationships between those two nutritional treatments or other factors and complications of nutritional therapy or postoperative complications during chemotherapy were analyzed by cox regression. Results Totally 427 patients had been completely followed up during 6 weeks. Among them, there were 301 cases (70.5%) in simple enteral nutrition (EN cohort) and 126 cases (29.5%) in enteral nutrition + parenteral nutrition (EN+PN cohort). There was no statistically significant difference in serum total protein (TP), albumin (ALB), prealbumin (PA), immunoglobulin (IgG, IgA) in two cohorts (P?>?0.05), and the difference of immunoglobulin (IgM) and total lymphocyte count (TLC) was statistically significant (P?0.05). There were 63 cases of nutritional treatment-related complications in the two cohorts, including 58 cases of cohort A and 11 cases of cohort B, the difference was statistically significant (P?0.05); there were 43 cases of postoperative complications associated with lung cancer, including 27 cases of cohort A, 16 cases of cohort B, and no statistically significant difference between them (P?>?0.05). After logistic regression analysis, no independent influencing factor of nutritional therapy complications were found, but IgG was the protective factors of postoperative complications of lung cancer [OlR?=?0.654, (95% CI: 0.476, 0.898)]. Conclusion In the case of postoperative chemotherapy patients with lung cancer, it is clinically necessary to support reasonable nutrition therapy, EN and PN have their own advantages, however, the mode of EN + PN can be preferred to be implemented when the appropriate conditions are available.