What is the success rate of lung cancer treatment

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Lung cancer is one of the most harmful malignant tumors to human health in the world. For patients with early lung cancer and their families, the first question we want to know is, can we cure early lung cancer? The success rate of lung cancer treatment needs to be understood in detail.

What is the success rate of lung cancer treatment

First, the curative effect of lung cancer is different in different periods. Generally speaking, patients with early lung cancer still have great hope of cure. With the improvement of medical level, the 5-year survival rate of early lung cancer has reached about 70%. Some patients with early lung cancer have a survival period of more than 10 years, 20 years or long-term survival. Whether lung cancer can be cured in the early stage depends not only on the patients themselves, but also on the treatment methods. At present, the detection rate of early lung cancer in China is relatively low, the general patients found that lung cancer has reached the middle and late stage, for this period of lung cancer patients cure hope has been reduced a lot.

The most effective treatment is radical resection. The 5-year survival rate of early lung cancer after resection can reach 60% - 90%. Radical operation of early lung cancer requires not only radical operation with naked eyes, but also routine radiotherapy and chemotherapy after operation.

Third: for patients with advanced lung cancer, if the patient's condition allows, or need to do surgical resection, for those patients who can not surgery also need follow-up treatment. 1) palliative chemotherapy: the median survival time of untreated advanced non-small cell lung cancer is 4-6 months, and fewer patients can survive more than 1 year. The 1-year survival rate can be increased by 19% after platinum regimen. The application of taxanes, gemcitabine, norvinblastine and other drugs can further improve the survival rate of patients. 2) palliative radiotherapy: radiotherapy can reduce the symptoms of 70% of patients with advanced lung cancer, and different doses and fractions of external radiotherapy can relieve the local symptoms of primary or metastatic lesions. 3) traditional Chinese medicine: the treatment of tumor in traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the principle of dialectical treatment and overall regulation. Based on many years of experience in the treatment of lung cancer with traditional Chinese medicine and the treatment results reported in the literature, traditional Chinese medicine has unique advantages in reducing the toxic effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, increasing the tolerance of the body to radiotherapy and chemotherapy, improving the quality of life and prolonging life span. Therefore, TCM treatment should start as soon as possible. 4) pain relief and psychotherapy: pain is one of the unbearable pains of patients with advanced lung cancer, and the pain caused by lung cancer can be relieved by drugs and radiotherapy. Active symptomatic treatment, care for the emotional or nursing needs of patients is also very important to improve the quality of life of patients.

matters needing attention

For the same kind of tumor, some people have obvious curative effect, while others have little effect. This is because of individual gene differences, tumor gene mutations, resulting in different drug effects. It is generally recommended that cancer drug gene testing should be carried out in top three hospitals in China, and drug regimens with higher efficacy and lower toxicity should be formulated to find symptomatic targeted drugs. The family history of cancer patients, through the detection of tumor susceptibility gene screening risk, is of great clinical significance for tumor prevention.