How long can esophagus cancer live

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My grandfather is in poor health. A few days ago, he was unable to eat in the primary election. He choked a little. He went to the hospital for examination and found that it was esophageal cancer, and it was advanced. So let me explain how long esophageal cancer can live.

How long can esophagus cancer live

First, for patients with early esophageal cancer, it mainly depends on whether the appropriate treatment is taken in time. The treatment of early esophageal cancer is surgical resection. The earlier the operation, the better. Radical resection is the main surgical method for early esophageal cancer. The 5-year survival rate after early resection is more than 60%. In order to prevent recurrence, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine can be used in a certain period of time after operation.

Second, for patients with advanced esophageal cancer, how long can they live with esophageal cancer? This problem has a great impact on the appropriateness of the treatment and the physical condition of the patients. As far as the treatment of advanced esophageal cancer is concerned, at this time, the tumor has already metastasized, and it is difficult to achieve satisfactory curative effect by surgical treatment with local treatment. The main treatment methods are drug treatment, namely chemotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine. The combination chemotherapy is the main method for advanced esophageal cancer, and the effect is better than single drug chemotherapy. At present, DDP BLM, blm-adm, DDP vds-bml and ddp-adm-5-fu are commonly used in clinical chemotherapy. Clinical studies have shown that DDP, 5-FU, BLM and other chemotherapeutic drugs have radiosensitization effect. In recent years, these chemotherapeutic drugs have been used as radiosensitizers in combination with radiotherapy in the treatment of advanced esophageal cancer, and achieved encouraging results. In addition, in view of the toxic and side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy on the human body, Chinese medicine is more and more used in the treatment of advanced esophageal cancer, in order to play the role of increasing efficiency and reducing toxicity. For patients with advanced esophageal cancer who have a wide range of metastasis, weak physical function and can not tolerate radiotherapy and chemotherapy, we can only use traditional Chinese medicine conservative treatment. Although the short-term effect is not obvious as chemotherapy, the long-term effect is good, which can improve the quality of life and prolong the survival period.

Third, good physical function, strong immunity, in order to resist the development of cancer, tolerance to a variety of drug treatment, after reasonable treatment can achieve a longer survival period. Therefore, it is very important for patients with esophageal cancer, especially for patients with advanced esophageal cancer, to improve the immune function and enhance the resistance to tumor. In the diet, patients with advanced esophageal cancer should try to eat more food that can enter the esophagus, such as semi liquid food and full flow food, and pay attention to the quality of semi liquid food and full flow food, do not limit calories, to achieve rich nutrition, soft food, easy to digest and absorb, when necessary, do homogenous diet. In addition, we can also rely on taking some traditional Chinese medicine with the function of strengthening spleen and kidney to improve the body's immunity and disease resistance.

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Patients with good physical function, strong immunity, in order to resist the development of cancer, tolerance to a variety of drug treatment, after reasonable treatment can achieve a longer survival period. Therefore, it is very important for patients with esophageal cancer, especially for patients with advanced esophageal cancer, to improve the immune function and enhance the resistance to tumor. In the diet, patients with advanced esophageal cancer should try to eat more food that can enter the esophagus, such as semi liquid food and full flow food, and pay attention to the quality of semi liquid food and full flow food, do not limit calories, to achieve rich nutrition, soft food, easy to digest and absorb, when necessary, do homogenous diet. In addition, we can also rely on taking some traditional Chinese medicine with the function of strengthening spleen and kidney to improve the body's immunity and disease resistance.