Is there any treatment for lung cancer

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Lung cancer is the most common cancer in our life, and also the disease with the highest mortality. Some time ago, one of my patients died of advanced lung cancer at the same time. Let me talk about the treatment of lung cancer.

Is there any treatment for 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 is positive in both early and late stage, and even about 1% of early small cell lung cancer is cured by chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is also the main treatment for non-small cell lung cancer. The tumor remission rate of chemotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer is 40% - 50%. Chemotherapy generally can not cure non-small cell lung cancer, but can only prolong the survival and improve the quality of life of patients. Chemotherapy is divided into therapeutic chemotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy. Different chemotherapy drugs and different chemotherapy regimens should be selected according to different histological types of lung cancer. Chemotherapy can not only kill tumor cells, but also damage human normal cells. Therefore, chemotherapy should be carried out under the guidance of tumor specialists. In recent years, the role of chemotherapy in lung cancer is no longer limited to patients with advanced lung cancer who can not be operated, but is often included in the comprehensive treatment plan of lung cancer as systemic treatment. Chemotherapy can inhibit the hematopoietic system of bone marrow, mainly the decrease of white blood cells and platelets. Chemotherapy is divided into therapeutic chemotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy.

Second, radiotherapy is a method of local killing the source of cancer. Among all types of lung cancer, undifferentiated small cell carcinoma is the most sensitive, followed by squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma is less sensitive. At present, it is often used in patients with wide range of lesions, distant metastasis or poor general condition, which is not suitable for surgical treatment, in order to improve symptoms and prolong life. Radiotherapy can also be combined with surgery. According to the location and range of cancer source, preoperative radiotherapy can improve the surgical resection rate for patients with more difficult operation. If undifferentiated small cell carcinoma is suitable for surgical resection, preoperative radiotherapy can improve the curative effect. Therefore, the effect of conventional radiotherapy is not suitable for other types of lung cancer.

Third, once the symptoms of lung cancer appear, if it is in the early stage, as long as it is suitable for surgery, it is necessary to do surgery for treatment. Lung cancer surgery for locally advanced lung cancer can reduce the cancer focus through other treatment methods, and then strive for surgical resection. The major deficiency of surgical treatment is that it may leave residual lesions, which is easy to cause recurrence and metastasis of cancer cells. In the treatment of lung cancer with traditional Chinese medicine, Pingfei Gujin prescription can quickly inhibit the growth and metastasis of various carcinogens, relieve cancer pain, reduce the frequency of coughing phlegm and blood, adjust the function of viscera, enhance the anti-cancer ability of patients, enhance immunity, and finally achieve the purpose of prolonging the life of patients.

matters needing attention

When patients with lung cancer have no dysphagia, they should choose their food freely. Without affecting the treatment, they should eat more protein and carbohydrate rich food to improve the quality of diet and create good conditions for surgery. If the nutritional status is poor, it is difficult to tolerate surgical trauma, postoperative healing is slow, easy to infection, which is not conducive to surgical rehabilitation. Diet is required to contain all kinds of nutrients necessary for human body. When there is enough heat supply, it can supplement protein nutrition and promote the synthesis of muscle protein. When there is insufficient heat supply, branched chain amino acids can also provide more heat. There are many kinds of element diet. When using it, we should start from low concentration. If we take it orally, we should pay attention to slow drinking. Because element diet is hypertonic liquid, it is easy to produce diarrhea and vomiting if it is used too quickly.