How to treat advanced lung cancer

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My friend's uncle had advanced lung adenocarcinoma, mediastinal lymph node metastasis, and a small amount of pleural effusion. He received chemotherapy three times first, and used cisplatin and paclitaxel, but the effect was not obvious. After eating Iressa for one month, he had a large amount of pleural effusion when eating IRESSA. He changed to chemotherapy, and used NP regimen plus Endostar. In the middle, he received pleural effusion treatment, and pumped pleural injection of interleukin. After two times of evaluation, the effect was still not good Turning to the left lung, the tumor has increased, the biggest 4.5 times 5.5 because of a cold with lung infection, now have pleural effusion, cough, shortness of breath, chest tightness, back pain. For patients with this disease should be treated as soon as possible, I will tell you about how to treat advanced lung cancer.

How to treat advanced lung cancer

First of all: in the late stage of lung cancer, surgery is not suitable for treatment. Chemotherapy is the main treatment for lung cancer, and more than 90% of lung cancer need chemotherapy. The curative effect of chemotherapy on small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is positive in both early and late stage, even about 1% of early SCLC is cured by chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is also the main treatment of non-small cell lung cancer, chemotherapy is divided into therapeutic chemotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy.

Secondly, radiotherapy is the best for small cell lung cancer, and adenocarcinoma is the worst. At the same time, it should be supplemented by drug treatment. Adenocarcinoma is not sensitive to radiation, and easy to blood metastasis, so it will be less simple radiotherapy. Radiotherapy is only a local treatment, often combined with chemotherapy. The combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy can take concurrent chemoradiotherapy or alternate chemoradiotherapy depending on the patient's condition.

Finally: surgical treatment is the first choice and the most important treatment for lung cancer, and it is also the only treatment that can cure lung cancer. The purpose of surgical treatment of lung cancer is to completely remove the primary lesion and metastatic lymph nodes of lung cancer. To achieve clinical cure, resection of the vast majority of the tumor, to create favorable conditions for other treatment, that is, tumor reduction surgery, which is only suitable for a small number of patients.

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While taking surgery and drug treatment, lung cancer patients can also take some food therapy methods for adjuvant treatment. It will also be effective. You should eat more protein and carbohydrate rich foods, such as lean meat, chicken, duck, rabbit, fish, shrimp, bean products and all kinds of cereals. Generally, you don't limit the amount of food to ensure good nutrition and create good conditions for surgery. Patients should maintain a good attitude, actively face the reality, and cooperate with doctors for treatment.