Can esophageal cancer metastasis be treated

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My cousin is a patient with esophageal cancer. At that time, we didn't believe it, but the test list is here. It's true that the patient's condition is like this. There have been signs of cancer cell metastasis. Chemotherapy has been going on for more than a week. Let's talk about whether esophageal cancer metastasis can be cured.

Can esophageal cancer metastasis be treated

First of all: for the treatment of esophageal cancer patients with late local disease stage and no lymph node metastasis, preoperative radiotherapy is generally recommended first, which can improve the resection rate and reduce the lymph node metastasis rate to a certain extent. It is suggested to have a certain understanding of this treatment scheme.

Secondly: because most patients have been in the middle and late stage, or have had metastasis, such as lymph node metastasis, etc., these patients often have lost the opportunity of surgical treatment, in this case, we should do radical and palliative radiotherapy according to the specific situation of patients.

Finally: after radical resection, the effect of preventive radiotherapy is also a common scheme, but in fact, there is no definite conclusion in the world. However, the main causes of postoperative failure are anastomotic recurrence and intrathoracic lymph node metastasis.

matters needing attention

Preoperative radiotherapy is the most common treatment, because preoperative radiotherapy, can effectively reduce the patient's tumor, in this way, it can directly improve the success rate of esophageal cancer surgery, esophageal cancer patients during radiotherapy, eat more apples, mushrooms, broccoli and so on, has anti-cancer effect, is beneficial to the body treatment.