Objective:To explore the effect of preoperative home-based rehabilitation in patients undergoing lung cancer surgery.Methods:From January 2021 to June 2022, convenience sampling was used to select 118 lung cancer patients who underwent surgical treatment at the Xinxiang First People's Hospital of Henan Province. The patients were randomly divided into an observation group and a control group, with 59 cases each. The control group received routine nursing, while the observation group received preoperative home-based rehabilitation. We compared the lung function, nutritional indicators, incidence of postoperative atelectasis and pulmonary infection, as well as the duration of thoracic closed drainage tube insertion and postoperative hospital stay between the two groups.Results:After intervention, the forced vital capacity (FVC), maximum ventilation volume (MVV), the percentage of forced expiratory volume in one second to the predicted value (FEV 1%), ventilate storage ratio (VSR), hemoglobin and serum albumin in the control group were lower than those before intervention, and the levels of FVC, MVV, FEV 1%, VSR, hemoglobin and serum albumin in the observation group after intervention were higher than those in the control group, with statistical differences ( P<0.05). The incidence of postoperative atelectasis and pulmonary infection in the observation group were lower than that in the control group, and the differences were statistically significant ( P<0.05). The observation group had shorter duration of thoracic closed drainage tube insertion and postoperative hospital stay compared to the control group, with statistically significant differences ( P<0.05) . Conclusions:Preoperative home-based rehabilitation can effectively maintain postoperative lung function and nutritional status of patients, reduce postoperative complications, shorten postoperative drainage tube insertion time and hospital stay, and facilitate postoperative recovery.