There were 239 subjects, who underwent rehabilitation after lung surgery from April 2010 to July 2010. Twelve subjects had exclusion criteria and the study cohort consisted of 227 subjects (Figure 1). Median age was 67 years (range, 33-87 years). With 120/227 (53%) subjects, male gender was slightly prevalent. On average, subjects were admitted to inpatient rehabilitation 25 days (range, 16-35 days) after lung operation and remained hospitalized for a median of 21 days (range, 8-42 days). The most frequently performed surgical technique was lobectomy in 108/227 subjects (47%) followed by wedge- and segment resection in 97/227 subjects (43%) and pneumonectomy 22/227 subjects (10%). The most common tumor diagnosis was NSCLC with 166/227 subjects (73%), followed by lung cancer of other histology in 26/227 subjects (12%) as well as pulmonary metastasis due to a solid extrapulmonary primary tumor (35/227 subjects, 15%). In the latter group there were 11 subjects with urothelial-/renal cell carcinoma, 8 subjects with colorectal carcinoma, 5 subjects with malignant melanomas and another 10 subjects with lung metastases of various other solid tumors. Depending on the tumor diagnosis, the selected surgical technique was lobectomy or pneumonectomy in subjects with primary lung cancer, each with systematic lymphadenectomy. Whereas wedge- and segment resection was used in metastasis surgery.