Complications of radiotherapy for esophageal cancer

Update Date: 2021-12-13 Source: Network

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Esophageal cancer radiotherapy is also very common, esophageal cancer patients to the late stage, surgical treatment is not appropriate, radiotherapy is more useful, uncle is the advanced esophageal cancer patients, then tell you, esophageal cancer in the late stage of radiotherapy have what complications!

Complications of radiotherapy for esophageal cancer

First: advanced esophageal cancer patients are generally treated by radiotherapy or systemic chemotherapy. Compared with early patients, the cure rate of advanced patients is smaller. Systemic chemotherapy is a common method for the treatment of all cancers at present. There will be some complications during radiotherapy, such as hair loss, dry skin and so on.

Second: during radiotherapy, if cancer cells continue to spread, they are likely to metastasize to the whole body. Generally, 6 times of radiotherapy is a course of treatment, and every one or two times of radiotherapy should be separated by about two weeks. After drinking and chatting for two times, we usually have a check to see if the radiotherapy drug has a control effect on the lesion. If no one has any effect, then we need to carry out second-line treatment.

Third: from the current clinical experience, the prognosis of esophageal cancer is not very good. General early patients, because the discovery time is early, the focus has not yet metastasized, can be treated by surgery, general surgical treatment, after surgical treatment of patients still have a chance to recover, but this probability is not big, in the late period of time can use traditional Chinese medicine conditioning.

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Some patients because of the side effects of radiotherapy on the body is too big, and their own constitution is relatively weak, there are many patients after one or two times of radiotherapy will never be treated. During radiotherapy, the patient's psychological state will be improved by listening to more music and drinking more light water.