How to treat metastatic lung cancer?

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Brain metastasis of lung cancer is very common and serious. Brain metastasis of lung cancer is one of the important reasons for treatment failure of lung cancer. The treatment of brain metastases from lung cancer can be selected according to the degree of development of the cancer, the size of the tumor, the location of the cancer, the scope of metastasis, the symptoms of the patients and their normal body function. But generally speaking, because the brain metastasis of lung cancer occurs in the later stage, we should pay attention to the tolerance of patients in the treatment. How to treat metastatic lung cancer? Let's talk about it

How to treat metastatic lung cancer?

If the brain metastases of lung cancer are single or more than two brain metastases, but they are concentrated in one area, and surgical resection does not directly bring life risk, and if the brain and lung are single lesions and there are no other metastases in the whole body, if the patients can tolerate surgery and the surgery can completely remove the lesions, they should actively take surgical treatment combined with traditional Chinese medicine, Traditional Chinese medicine can enhance the tolerance of patients.

For patients with multiple brain metastases from lung cancer, the comprehensive treatment of radiotherapy and chemotherapy combined with traditional Chinese medicine should be given priority to, which can not only treat the brain lesions, but also give consideration to the systemic treatment of lung cancer.

Whole brain radiotherapy. This is the most effective treatment for brain metastasis of lung cancer. It can also achieve significant therapeutic effect. Radiotherapy does not need surgery, reduce the pain of patients after surgery and reduce the body's resistance due to surgery, and eventually die. At present, the most advanced radiotherapy equipment is CyberKnife. Compared with other radiotherapy, CyberKnife has better effect and less side effects, and it does not need to implant a stent in the patient's head, which can reduce the pain and inconvenience in the treatment of patients.

matters needing attention

For advanced lung cancer, we can try the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, this method is also the best, in addition, patients do not have too much mental pressure, so as not to aggravate the disease, this is the most important, there is to maintain a balanced nutrition and the right amount of exercise is also a special recuperation method.