How to treat lung cancer

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Second uncle has been coughing all the time recently, and he obviously feels chest pain. He went to the hospital and was diagnosed with lung cancer. The doctor said that it has a lot to do with his long-term smoking, but it can be treated. Now let me introduce how to treat lung cancer.

How to treat lung cancer

First, the lung lesions and metastatic lymph nodes were completely removed by surgery. Now the surgical technique has made great progress compared with 30 years ago and 20 years ago. The mortality rate of surgical operation, the incidence rate of surgical complications and the rate of thoracotomy exploration have made obvious and revolutionary progress.

Second: drug treatment is what the common people call chemotherapy. Chemotherapy drugs for lung cancer are also updated in recent years. For example, our previous chemotherapy drugs have poor effect and many side effects. In the past, people were worried about the side effects of chemotherapy, such as nausea and vomiting, leukopenia and pulmonary infection. Now there are good drugs for symptomatic treatment, so that patients do not feel sick or vomit.

Third: psychological treatment, family members or nursing staff should comfort lung cancer patients psychologically and communicate with them more. Let patients with advanced lung cancer enhance the desire to survive, not always psychological repression. This can also play a certain role in the treatment of lung cancer.

matters needing attention

Lung cancer is a very common malignant tumor, the treatment of lung cancer should be differentiated by stages, early lung cancer patients are often the first choice for surgical treatment, this kind of operation includes many kinds, in the late stage is mainly local treatment, Chinese medicine adjuvant treatment.