How is esophagus cancer treated best

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Although esophageal cancer is difficult to treat, it is not impossible to solve. My friend's father suffered from esophageal cancer. At that time, the solution was appropriate and well controlled. Let's see how esophageal cancer is best treated.

How is esophagus cancer treated best

First: drug therapy drug therapy is one of the methods for the treatment of esophageal cancer, can control the development of esophageal cancer to a certain extent, mainly as an adjuvant treatment of surgical treatment.

Second, surgical treatment experts said that for patients with esophageal cancer with clear diagnosis, limited lesion scope, no distant metastasis and no surgical contraindications, surgical treatment should be considered first, and the effect is also better. Surgical treatment mainly includes radical resection, palliative resection, shape reduction surgery and so on.

Third: radiotherapy esophageal cancer treatment also includes radiotherapy, can be carried out at the same time with surgery, can also be used alone. If radiotherapy before operation can make the tumor and metastatic lymph nodes shrink, cancer cells degenerate or even disappear, and make the cancerous adhesion between the tumor and adjacent organs turn into fibrous adhesion, it will help to improve the resection rate of operation. If it is used alone, it is mainly suitable for patients with contraindications but limited cancer and no severe dysphagia.

matters needing attention

Esophageal cancer patients will have dysphagia phenomenon, when this situation occurs, the diet should be changed to liquid food, chew slowly, eat less and more, forced backlog will also stimulate cancer cell proliferation, metastasis, bleeding, pain and so on.