Is chemotherapy useful for small cell lung cancer

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In recent days, I have been coughing all the time, and even it's very difficult to breathe when it's serious. Later, I went to the hospital for examination, and the report came out that it was small cell lung cancer. The doctor asked me to do chemotherapy, and now I have done several radiotherapy treatments. Now let's talk about whether chemotherapy is useful for small cell lung cancer.

Is chemotherapy useful for small cell 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.

matters needing attention

For patients with lung cancer this disease to have a positive and optimistic attitude to the treatment of this disease, in daily life should timely correct some bad habits, to actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment, develop good habits of life, in the diet can eat some fresh fruits and vegetables, improve their physical quality.