Does pancreatic cancer need postoperative chemotherapy

Update Date: 2024-02-20 Source: Network

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My elder brother has pancreatic cancer, which has just been found out. He has been treated in the hospital these days, but my younger sister-in-law is not very obvious. The doctor said that he might need surgery, and now he has to do chemotherapy after surgery. Today, let me talk about whether postoperative chemotherapy is necessary for pancreatic cancer.

Does pancreatic cancer need postoperative chemotherapy

First: after patients reach the advanced stage of pancreatic cancer, surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy can no longer inhibit the spread of cancer cells. On the contrary, because of its huge toxic and side effects, it will aggravate the disease. Therefore, the doctors of advanced patients mostly aim to relieve the pain of patients and prolong the life cycle.

Second: pancreatic cancer surgery will hurt the vitality of patients, most of them are relatively weak, whether chemotherapy or not and the frequency of chemotherapy should be strictly combined with the specific situation of patients. If chemotherapy needs to be combined with traditional Chinese medicine, it can also be treated with traditional Chinese medicine alone.

Third: chemotherapy is a kind of "burning jade and stone" treatment, chemotherapy drugs often do not have targeting, while killing pancreatic cancer cells, it will cause damage to normal cells and physiological organs of human body, affect the efficacy of stomach and liver, and then vomit. It is a common complication and side effect of chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer.

matters needing attention

The diet of patients with pancreatic cancer needs to have enough calories, high-quality protein and vitamins. All cancer patients have different degrees of psychological and spiritual problems. In terms of nursing care, we should pay attention to the changes of patients' emotions, communicate with patients more, help patients face life optimistically, enhance their own immunity, and contribute to the improvement of other therapeutic effects.