Surgical conditions for lung cancer

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If patients with lung cancer want to have surgery, there are also conditions. Not everyone can have surgery for lung cancer. Uncle is a patient with lung cancer. His health is not very good and his condition is unstable. Therefore, the doctor says that surgery is not suitable and radiotherapy is needed. Let's talk about the conditions for lung cancer surgery.

Surgical conditions for lung cancer

First, surgical treatment can be performed in the early stage of lung cancer. Generally speaking, for patients with stage I, II and IIIA non-small cell lung cancer, surgical resection is the traditional choice, and there is no distant metastasis of other organs and tissues, including extrapulmonary organs such as liver, accessory lymph nodes of other tissues and organs, bone, brain tissue, etc.

Second: otherwise, if it has spread and the situation is serious, it is not suitable for surgery. Although the surgical patients need limited cancer focus, no large thoracic vascular invasion, no malignant pleural effusion, no heart, liver, kidney, dysfunction, no serious hypertension, diabetes, etc.

Third: the patient's vital signs monitoring, blood routine, coagulation function, lung function, blood gas analysis, cardiac function (ECG, cardiac ultrasound), guidance on how to expectorate after surgery, bowel preparation one day before surgery. All the above examinations are necessary to ensure the smooth and safe operation of lung cancer.

matters needing attention

After lung cancer patients have surgery, diet therapy is also very important during the recovery period. They need to eat high-quality protein, high nutrition, low-fat, low cholesterol food. High fat food will aggravate the condition of patients with advanced lung cancer, while low-fat food can relieve the symptoms of nausea, dizziness and palpitation of patients, so as to ensure that patients with lung cancer have nutrition intake without accelerating the proliferation of cancer cells.