Abstract: Patients with lung cancer experience a series of disturbing symptoms during the perioperative period that seriously affect their quality of life. This paper reviews the research progress of symptom clusters in patients with lung cancer during the perioperative period from the aspects of concept, evaluation, classification and characteristics, influencing factors, and nursing management of symptom clusters, in order to provide a reference for further research on symptom clusters in patients with lung cancer during the perioperative period.

Key words: lung cancer; symptom cluster; perioperative period; review