What are the treatment methods of lung cancer

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Because my uncle got lung cancer, so our whole family has been looking for ways to treat lung cancer. Then I heard that today there are experts who talk about the treatment of lung cancer. We all went to listen to it, and the harvest is not small. Next, I will tell you about the treatment of lung cancer by experts.

What are the treatment methods of lung cancer

First, chemotherapy is the main treatment for lung cancer, more than 90% of lung cancer need chemotherapy. The curative effect of chemotherapy on small cell lung cancer is positive in both early and late stage, and even about 1% of early small cell lung cancer is cured by chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is also the main treatment for non-small cell lung cancer. The tumor remission rate of chemotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer is 40% - 50%. Chemotherapy generally can not cure non-small cell lung cancer, but can only prolong the survival and improve the quality of life of patients.

Second, radiotherapy is the best for small cell lung cancer, followed by squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma. The radiation field of lung cancer should include the mediastinum of primary tumor and lymph node metastasis. At the same time, it should be supplemented by drug treatment. Squamous cell carcinoma has moderate sensitivity to radiation, the lesions are mainly local invasion, metastasis is relatively slow, so radical treatment is often used. It is easy to metastasize to the blood tract of adenocarcinoma and less sensitive to radiotherapy. Radiotherapy is a local treatment, which often needs combined chemotherapy. The combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy can take concurrent chemoradiotherapy or alternate chemoradiotherapy depending on the patient's condition.

Third: surgical treatment of lung cancer, surgical treatment is the first choice and the most important treatment of lung cancer, but also the only way to cure lung cancer. The purpose of surgical treatment of lung cancer is: to completely remove the primary focus and metastatic lymph nodes of lung cancer, to achieve clinical cure; to remove most of the tumor, to create favorable conditions for other treatment, namely tumor reduction surgery.

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Generally speaking, there are several ways to treat lung cancer, according to the different periods of patients with lung cancer to choose the best treatment. Some patients can take chemotherapy or radiotherapy to inhibit the spread and metastasis of cancer cells, some can use surgical treatment to remove the lesions.