How to alleviate the pain of advanced lung cancer

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I majored in sociology. Last week, my school arranged to practice in the old people's home near my school, mainly to help the old people and chat. An old woman I was in charge of talked to me that she was a patient with lung cancer, which had just been found out. Because I always felt bone pain before finding out, which meant that there was something wrong with my leg. As a result, I went to the hospital and got cancer. Here's how to relieve the pain of advanced lung cancer.

How to alleviate the pain of advanced lung cancer

First of all: in the late stage of lung cancer, surgery is not suitable for treatment. Chemotherapy is the main treatment for lung cancer, and more than 90% of lung cancer need chemotherapy. The curative effect of chemotherapy on small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is positive in both early and late stage, even about 1% of early SCLC is cured by chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is also the main treatment of non-small cell lung cancer, chemotherapy is divided into therapeutic chemotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy.

Secondly, radiotherapy is the best for small cell lung cancer, and adenocarcinoma is the worst. At the same time, it should be supplemented by drug treatment. Adenocarcinoma is not sensitive to radiation, and easy to blood metastasis, so it will be less simple radiotherapy. Radiotherapy is only a local treatment, often combined with chemotherapy. The combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy can take concurrent chemoradiotherapy or alternate chemoradiotherapy depending on the patient's condition.

Finally: surgical treatment is the first choice and the most important treatment for lung cancer, and it is also the only treatment that can cure lung cancer. The purpose of surgical treatment of lung cancer is to completely remove the primary lesion and metastatic lymph nodes of lung cancer. To achieve clinical cure, resection of the vast majority of the tumor, to create favorable conditions for other treatment, that is, tumor reduction surgery, which is only suitable for a small number of patients.

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While taking surgery and drug treatment, lung cancer patients can also take some food therapy methods for adjuvant treatment. It will also be effective. You should eat more protein and carbohydrate rich foods, such as lean meat, chicken, duck, rabbit, fish, shrimp, bean products and all kinds of cereals. Generally, you don't limit the amount of food to ensure good nutrition and create good conditions for surgery. Patients should maintain a good attitude, actively face the reality, and cooperate with doctors for treatment.