How to treat advanced pancreatic cancer

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Recently, when a colleague was working, he always felt pain in his lower abdomen. He went to the hospital and was found to have advanced pancreatic cancer. I don't know if he can be treated. Let me talk about how to treat advanced pancreatic cancer.

How to treat advanced pancreatic cancer

First, most of advanced pancreatic cancer has metastasized and cannot be resected. Clinically, the treatment of advanced pancreatic cancer mainly depends on drug therapy, including chemotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine, and radiotherapy can also be taken according to the situation. Chemotherapy or radiotherapy should be combined with traditional Chinese medicine, which can play a role of increasing efficiency and reducing toxicity.

Second: the treatment of advanced pancreatic cancer is usually conservative, such as traditional Chinese medicine. Because at this time, many patients' bodies can not bear the risk of surgery, and at this time, pancreatic cancer cells have spread, so the significance of surgical treatment is not great. The symptoms of pancreatic cancer accompanied by the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy make many patients lose confidence in treatment.

Third: Traditional Chinese medicine treatment of pancreatic cancer is from the patient as a whole, the side effects of traditional Chinese medicine is very small, compared with western medicine is minimal, western medicine treatment of pancreatic cancer is generally aggressive, so the harm to the human body is also relatively large, advanced treatment of pancreatic cancer is best through the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine or integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, can learn from each other, in relieving the symptoms of pancreatic cancer at the same time, help the patient Patients consolidate the curative effect.

matters needing attention

Due to the special condition of advanced pancreatic cancer, most of the cancer cells have metastasized at this time. Some traditional treatment methods, such as surgery, are no longer suitable. Whether chemotherapy can be carried out at this time depends on the patient's physical condition. Generally, traditional Chinese medicine is used for conditioning.