What is the treatment of advanced lung cancer

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The treatment of advanced lung cancer is very difficult. My aunt used chemotherapy at that time, but the effect is not very ideal. The choice of specific methods is related to the patient's condition. Let's take a look at the treatment of advanced lung cancer.

What is the treatment of advanced lung cancer

Method 1: chemotherapy is the main treatment of lung cancer, more than 90% of lung cancer patients need chemotherapy. About 1% of the patients with advanced lung cancer are cured by early or small cell 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, can only improve the quality of life of patients, and prolong the survival of patients.

Method 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. It is easy to metastasize to the blood tract of adenocarcinoma and less sensitive to radiotherapy. 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.

Method 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 surgery is to treat lung cancer. The primary focus and metastatic lymph nodes of lung cancer were completely removed to achieve clinical cure. Resection of the vast majority of the tumor, to create favorable conditions for other treatment, that is, tumor reduction surgery.

matters needing attention

Lung cancer in the late stage is relatively difficult to cure, and there will be metastasis, in addition to treatment as far as possible, but also do a good job in patient care measures, as far as possible to meet the wishes of patients.