Diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer

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At the beginning, if you always cough, you should pay attention to it. Especially the middle-aged and old people, it's very easy to get sick at this time. You should have a physical examination every year. If you always cough and cough up blood, you are likely to suffer from lung cancer. Only when you go to the hospital for examination and diagnosis can you know the results, can we rest assured. Let's talk about the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer!

Diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer

First: chemotherapy is the main treatment for lung cancer, 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.

Second, 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.

Third: 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.

matters needing attention

Lung cancer patients with poor health, we should pay attention to health, should pay attention to diet should be fluid, light, to maintain a balanced nutrition, food choice should be soft, easy to digest diet is better, to step by step, not blindly require more food, food supplement and drug supplement can be synchronized.