Treatment of lung cancer and pancreatic cancer

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Although the medical technology is superb, many diseases are still incurable. There are more and more patients with lung cancer and pancreatic cancer, but the survival rate after treatment is not high. My uncle died of lung cancer. Let's talk about the treatment methods for lung cancer and pancreatic cancer!

Treatment of lung cancer and pancreatic cancer

Method 1: Patients with lung cancer and pancreatic cancer can use chemotherapy, which can effectively control the disease. 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.

Method 2: radiotherapy is the best for small cell lung cancer, 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.

Method 3: in the early stage of lung cancer patients, it is best to choose surgical treatment. Surgical treatment is the first choice and the most important treatment method for lung cancer, and it is also the only treatment method that can cure lung cancer now. 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

Usually, we must prevent lung cancer, so we must quit smoking and alcohol, which is the most effective way to prevent lung cancer; we must control ourselves to drink less alcohol; do not eat moldy food, eat less pickled food; when eating, we should chew slowly, do not eat too hot food; do not eat too much fat, the intake is controlled below 30% of the total calories, that is, the daily intake of animal and plant fat 50g ～80g。