The most effective treatment for lung cancer

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My father-in-law smokes a lot. He can smoke several packs of cigarettes a day. In recent days, I found that he coughed all the time and always said that he had chest pain. When he came to the hospital for examination, he found that it was malignant lung cancer. Now he is in the hospital for treatment. Today, let me talk about the most effective treatment for lung cancer.

The most effective treatment for lung cancer

（1） Chemotherapy is the main treatment of lung cancer, more than 90% of lung cancer need chemotherapy. The curative effect of chemotherapy on small cell lung cancer is positive in both early and late stage, and even about 1% of early small cell lung cancer is cured by chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is also the main treatment for non-small cell lung cancer. The tumor remission rate of chemotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer is 40% - 50%. Chemotherapy generally can not cure non-small cell lung cancer, but can only prolong the survival and improve the quality of life of patients. Chemotherapy is divided into therapeutic chemotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy. Different chemotherapy drugs and different chemotherapy regimens should be selected according to different histological types of lung cancer. Chemotherapy can not only kill tumor cells, but also damage human normal cells. Therefore, chemotherapy should be carried out under the guidance of tumor specialists. In recent years, the role of chemotherapy in lung cancer is no longer limited to patients with advanced lung cancer who can not be operated, but is often included in the comprehensive treatment plan of lung cancer as systemic treatment. Chemotherapy can inhibit the hematopoietic system of bone marrow, mainly the decrease of white blood cells and platelets. Chemotherapy is divided into therapeutic chemotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy.

（2） Radiotherapy is the best for small cell lung cancer, followed by squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma. The radiation field of lung cancer should include the mediastinum of primary tumor and lymph node metastasis. At the same time, it should be supplemented by drug treatment. Squamous cell carcinoma has moderate sensitivity to radiation, the lesions are mainly local invasion, metastasis is relatively slow, so radical treatment is often used. Adenocarcinoma is not sensitive to radiation and easy to metastasize, so radiotherapy alone is rarely used. Radiotherapy is a local treatment, which often needs combined chemotherapy. The combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy can take concurrent chemoradiotherapy or alternate chemoradiotherapy depending on the patient's condition. 2. According to the purpose of treatment, radiotherapy can be divided into radical treatment, palliative treatment, preoperative neoadjuvant radiotherapy, postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy and intracavitary radiotherapy. 3. Complications of radiotherapy complications of lung cancer include radiation pneumonitis, radiation esophagitis, radiation pulmonary fibrosis and radiation myelitis. There is a positive correlation between the above complications and the radiation dose, and there is also individual difference.

（3） Surgical treatment of lung cancer surgical treatment is the first choice and the most important treatment of lung cancer, but also the only way to cure lung cancer. The purpose of surgical treatment of lung cancer is: to completely remove the primary lesions and metastatic lymph nodes of lung cancer, to achieve clinical cure; to remove most of the tumor, to create favorable conditions for other treatment, namely tumor reduction surgery; shape reduction surgery: suitable for a small number of patients, such as refractory pleural cavity and pericardial effusion, by removing pleural and pericardial planting nodules, removing part of pericardium and pleura, to treat lung cancer The clinical symptoms caused by pericardial and pleural effusion can be cured or relieved, and life can be prolonged or quality of life can be improved. Local and systemic chemotherapy should be performed simultaneously in the operation. Adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy are often needed before or after surgery to improve the cure rate of surgery and the survival rate of patients. The five-year survival rate of surgical treatment for lung cancer was 30% - 44%, and the mortality rate of surgical treatment was 1% - 2%.

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In the early stage, surgery should be the first choice, and dynamic therapy of traditional Chinese medicine should be used after surgery. Chinese herbal medicine can kill residual cancer cells, improve immunity, prevent recurrence and metastasis, and effectively control the disease. In the middle and late stage, traditional Chinese medicine should be the main treatment, combined with western medicine.