How to treat lung cancer recurrence

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Women with a history of smoking should attach great importance to their lung health and have regular physical examination after 40 years old. For a long time, lung cancer has been known as "male cancer" and "elderly cancer". However, the trend of incidence in recent five years shows that the cumulative risk of lung cancer in women has increased by more than 30%. How to treat the recurrence of lung cancer? Do you understand? Let's talk about how to treat the recurrence of lung cancer.

How to treat lung cancer recurrence

First, one of the conventional treatments for lung cancer is surgical treatment. The purpose of surgical treatment is to completely remove the primary lung cancer focus and local lymph tissue, and to retain healthy lung tissue as much as possible

Second, chemotherapy is one of the conventional treatments for lung cancer. Anticancer drugs can inhibit the growth and reproduction of cancer cells and kill cancer cells. Clinically, they can be used alone in patients with advanced lung cancer for palliative treatment to relieve symptoms. In most cases, it is combined with surgery and radiotherapy to prevent cancer metastasis and recurrence and improve the long-term survival rate.

Third: the conventional treatment of lung cancer is radiotherapy, radiotherapy is a method of local killing cancer lesions, in all types of lung cancer, undifferentiated small cell carcinoma is the most sensitive to radiotherapy, followed by squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma is the least sensitive.

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