How to treat malignant esophageal cancer

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How long can esophageal cancer live? This is an urgent problem that many patients with esophageal cancer and their families pay special attention to. However, it is difficult to have a definite answer to the question of how long patients with esophageal cancer can live. Because generally speaking, esophageal cancer in the process of treatment, it belongs to a more systematic, not appropriate. So what is esophageal cancer? Since it is so difficult to cure, what ways can esophageal cancer patients treat esophageal cancer in their life? Today, Xiao Bian will introduce several methods to you.

How to treat malignant esophageal cancer

First: what is esophageal cancer? Esophageal cancer is a kind of malignant tumor occurring in the esophageal epithelial tissue, in which esophageal cancer accounts for 2% of all malignant tumors. Although the weight is not very large, it poses a great threat to people's health. In addition, nearly 200000 people die of esophageal cancer every year in the world, and our country is a high incidence area of esophageal cancer. Generally speaking, the onset age of esophageal cancer is more than 40 years old, and the incidence rate of esophageal cancer is higher than 40 years old And men are more than women.

Second: Generally speaking, surgical treatment is the most common treatment in medicine, because surgical treatment can effectively treat the root of his disease and eliminate the damage to the patient's body. At present, different patients have different treatment methods and plans for early and late stage.

Third: for patients with advanced esophageal cancer, in addition to surgery and traditional Chinese medicine treatment, radiotherapy and anticancer drug chemotherapy are also needed. This is a common treatment for patients with advanced esophageal cancer, in which these drugs can only play the role of adjuvant surgery, and can not play a substantial role in the stability of the patient's condition.

matters needing attention

Esophageal cancer is a kind of digestive system disease, it will pose a certain threat to the health of patients with esophageal cancer, once diagnosed with esophageal cancer, to seek medical treatment immediately, must not delay, so as to delay the best period of treatment. Last but not least, family members should give patients confidence in treatment. Patients need to keep a happy mood, which is conducive to the control of the disease.