Treatment of esophageal cancer

summary

Esophageal cancer is a rather terrible disease. The harm caused by esophageal cancer to patients is relatively serious. Some time ago, my uncle detected esophageal cancer. For patients with esophageal cancer, I will tell you about the treatment of esophageal cancer.

Treatment of esophageal cancer

Treatment 1: surgery is the first choice for the treatment of esophageal cancer. The average resection rate of lower cancer was 90%, middle cancer 50%, and upper cancer 56.3% - 92.9%.

Treatment 2: radiotherapy for esophageal cancer includes radical and palliative treatment. The surgical treatment of cervical and upper thoracic esophageal cancer is more traumatic and has a high incidence, while radiotherapy is less invasive and more effective than surgery.

Treatment 3: drug treatment of esophageal cancer cell proliferation cycle of chemical treatment of esophageal cancer is about 7 days, slightly longer than the normal esophageal epithelial cell cycle. Theoretically, the doubling time is about 10 days, so the number of proliferative cells is less than that of non proliferative cells.

matters needing attention

Esophageal cancer patients with this disease must have a positive and optimistic attitude to face and treat this disease, at the same time should actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment, in order to achieve better therapeutic effect, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, avoid contact with spicy and irritating food, can be appropriate for some physical exercise.