What are the new methods for esophageal cancer

No matter who has esophageal cancer, everyone needs to treat their disease as soon as possible. There are four common methods for treating esophageal cancer in clinical practice, namely traditional Chinese medicine treatment, surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. Which of these four methods is better? Let's ask the oncologist to introduce it in detail.

1. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment: one of the commonly used methods for treating esophageal cancer in clinical practice. Traditional Chinese medicine should be used at all stages of esophageal cancer because it can not only inhibit tumors, but also improve the patient's immunity and reduce the toxic side effects of Western medicine treatment. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment of esophageal cancer can consider the patient's whole body, not just the cancer lesions themselves. It can correct certain disorders of the body, remove factors that cause tumor recurrence, and reduce the chance of metastasis. The more obvious advantage of traditional Chinese medicine is that it is safe and has no side effects. Treatment and rehabilitation are carried out simultaneously, and both the symptoms and the root causes are treated. However, traditional Chinese medicine is slower to take effect than Western medicine and needs to be used for a long time.

2. Surgical treatment: Surgical treatment is suitable for patients with clear diagnosis, limited lesions, no distant metastasis, and no surgical contraindications.

3. Radiotherapy: If radiation is used before surgery, it can shrink the tumor and metastatic lymph nodes, degenerate or even eliminate cancer cells, and transform the cancerous adhesions between the tumor and adjacent organs into fibrous adhesions, which helps to improve the resection rate. At the same time, radiotherapy can also be used alone to treat esophageal cancer. It is suitable for patients who are contraindicated for surgery but whose tumors are still localized and who do not have severe dysphagia, to control tumor growth and recurrence.

4. Chemotherapy: Chemotherapy is a systemic treatment. While chemotherapy drugs kill cancer cells, they also kill or damage normal cells in the human body. Although chemotherapy is effective quickly, its strong toxicity often makes it difficult for patients to tolerate.

Because esophageal cancer is difficult to detect in the early stages, most patients are in the middle or late stages. The focus of treatment for middle or late stage esophageal cancer is how to control the growth of the tumor and prevent it from recurring or metastasizing. Radiotherapy combined with traditional Chinese medicine treatment is more effective than other methods in controlling tumor recurrence and metastasis.

This article introduces in detail the methods of treating esophageal cancer. Now you understand, many people blindly seek medical treatment because they want to get better quickly. Many esophageal cancer patients have been deceived, resulting in the delay of the best treatment time for esophageal cancer.