Postoperative chemotherapy for advanced lung cancer

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My uncle's living habits have always been bad. No matter how I tried to persuade him, he didn't listen to me. He kept drinking and smoking every day, and he was about to break down. When I went to the hospital some time ago, I learned that he had lung cancer. Today, let me talk about chemotherapy after surgery for advanced lung cancer.

Postoperative chemotherapy for advanced lung cancer

First, the common traditional treatments for lung cancer include surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Although radiotherapy and chemotherapy can effectively kill tumor cells, it can destroy normal cells in patients, and there will be some side effects, such as hair loss, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite and other adverse reactions. Surgical treatment is the conventional way of tumor treatment, which usually plays a good role in the early stage of the disease, but it is difficult to remove small lesions, and its recurrence rate is very high.

Second, radiotherapy is the first choice. Surgical resection and chemotherapy are also indispensable methods for patients with well differentiated carcinoma, late course of disease and recurrence after radiotherapy. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy can be done first, and further surgery can be done after tumor control. At the same time, we should take traditional Chinese medicine to soothe the liver and gallbladder, clear away heat and toxin, strengthen the body and remove pathogenic factors, soften and firm the body, improve the internal environment, inhibit the growth and spread of cancer cells, and alleviate the disease.

Third: cancer is a local manifestation of a systemic disease. There is nothing we can do about the cancer cells remaining in the blood and lymph, so we must match immunotherapy after surgery. Surgery can only remove the visible lesions. Cancer is a systemic disease, but there are still residual cancer or regional lymph nodes. Due to the damage of vital energy caused by surgery, the probability of recurrence and metastasis is very high. It is suggested that comprehensive treatment with Chinese herbal medicine is the best way to improve immunity and kill residual cancer cells.

matters needing attention

So we must develop healthy and good living habits, quit smoking and alcohol, improve living habits, pay attention to diet and work and rest rules, pay attention to light diet, avoid greasy and stimulating food, at the same time, patients must have confidence, avoid excessive psychological pressure, and actively cooperate with treatment.