How to chemotherapy after nasopharyngeal carcinoma operation

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Some time ago, my father-in-law's nose and throat were always very uncomfortable. After going to the hospital, he found out that he had nasopharyngeal carcinoma. After the operation, the doctor suggested that we continue to do chemotherapy. Now let's talk about how to use chemotherapy after nasopharyngeal carcinoma surgery.

How to chemotherapy after nasopharyngeal carcinoma operation

First: induction chemotherapy: induction chemotherapy can rapidly relieve various adverse clinical symptoms of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, relieve the pain of patients, especially for patients with locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma, it can improve the curative effect to a certain extent, reduce the recurrence rate, effectively control the distant micrometastasis, and can completely implement induction chemotherapy to stabilize the condition of patients with locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma who are not suitable for radiotherapy . The effective rate of induction chemotherapy is a powerful index to predict the prognosis of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma. The next treatment plan can be decided according to its response, which has a far-reaching impact on improving the long-term efficacy.

Second: adjuvant chemotherapy: at present, there are few phase III clinical studies of adjuvant chemotherapy, and most of them have no positive results. It is very important to explore new effective drugs and appropriate dose intensity, select high-efficiency and low toxicity drugs and reduce their toxicity in adjuvant chemotherapy of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Third: concurrent chemoradiotherapy: the research report points out that the use of platinum containing concurrent chemoradiotherapy in the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma can achieve better curative effect. Phase III clinical trial found that concurrent chemoradiotherapy can significantly improve the local control rate of patients with locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma, significantly delay or prevent distant metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and has a definite curative effect in improving survival rate. However, its toxicity can not be ignored, especially in patients who have received induction chemotherapy, they can not tolerate strong toxic and side effects The combination of chemotherapy, adjuvant chemotherapy or concurrent chemoradiotherapy with traditional Chinese medicine has a good synergistic effect on the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

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Patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma after surgery continue chemotherapy can further control the disease, the treatment of patients is very helpful, patients can choose the appropriate chemotherapy method according to their different specific circumstances, but also can take traditional Chinese medicine, collaborative treatment.