Treatment of brain metastases from lung cancer

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My aunt had a serious illness when she was young. She suffered from pneumonia. In recent years, her health is getting worse and worse. When she went to the hospital for examination last month, she actually suffered from lung cancer. Now the situation is getting worse and worse. Yesterday, I heard my mother say that she had brain metastasis from lung cancer. When I need to see him, the doctor said that there are many kinds of treatment methods, but I don't know which treatment method my aunt is suitable for. Next, I'll tell you about the treatment methods for brain metastasis of lung cancer.

Treatment of brain metastases from lung cancer

First: surgical treatment: surgical treatment is the preferred method of lung cancer brain metastasis, is the most direct and effective method. If the comprehensive quality of patients allows, try to surgical treatment. At the same time, for the patients with difficult surgical resection or large tumor volume and metastasis, preoperative and postoperative radiotherapy can be used to improve the surgical resection rate and reduce the recurrence rate of tumor. If it is early metastasis of lung cancer patients, then can take surgical treatment, after all, more quickly, but also a common treatment.

Second: radiotherapy: radiotherapy is a common method for brain metastasis of lung cancer, which can effectively reduce the volume of tumor, relieve the symptoms of patients and prolong the life of patients. However, radiotherapy also has some defects. For example, after radiotherapy, the symptoms of increased intracranial pressure can be aggravated due to edema of irradiated brain tissue, tissue necrosis and vascular changes in the lesions. At this time, the daily water intake should be appropriately limited, and diuretics such as dexamethasone or prednisolone and mannitol should be used to reduce the symptoms of head pain and vomiting. CyberKnife is a new method of radiotherapy, treatment is more accurate, treatment is generally 1-5 courses, can effectively prevent postoperative recurrence. However, the single treatment effect is not very obvious, it is best to cooperate with surgery or traditional Chinese medicine treatment. Although the effect of single radiotherapy is very obvious, and the effect is also very fast, but not every patient is suitable for radiotherapy, and radiotherapy does great harm to patients.

Third, traditional Chinese medicine has no obvious therapeutic effect on brain metastasis of lung cancer. Because of its complex components, it is difficult for drug molecules to penetrate the blood-brain barrier, and even a small amount of penetration can not reach the effective concentration. Because only lipid soluble drugs with small molecular structure can pass through the blood-brain barrier and reach the target of treatment. But traditional Chinese medicine treatment can improve the body immunity, improve the comprehensive quality of patients, better accept other treatment methods, is a variety of auxiliary treatment methods. In the case of patients with advanced lung cancer, traditional Chinese medicine treatment can certainly delay the life of patients, and there will not be too much side effects.

matters needing attention

Brain metastasis of lung cancer is the manifestation of the severity of the disease, usually simple treatment, it is difficult to achieve good results. Generally, the effect of comprehensive treatment is better. The treatment methods include surgery, radiotherapy and drug treatment. The three methods are consistent and multiply to make up for each other. Lung cancer patients for the consumption of nutrition is very large, advanced lung cancer patients may cause paralysis, and do not like to eat, the most serious is easy to incontinence, so family members as much as possible to accompany patients, more accompany patients.