What is the best treatment for esophageal cancer

As the saying goes: Diseases come from the mouth. The occurrence of many diseases is closely related to people's diet. Whether it is the hygiene of diet or eating habits, it may induce the occurrence of esophageal cancer. I hope everyone can strengthen their diet. Next, let's look at the common treatments for esophageal cancer and understand what is the best treatment for esophageal cancer.

Method 1: surgical treatment

In clinical practice, patients often choose surgical resection, which is one of the main methods for treating esophageal tumors. This method has very good treatment and prognosis effects in early treatment. What I want to tell you here is that because the early stage of the disease is not easy to detect, and surgical treatment will cause trauma to the patient's body, and disease complications often occur after surgery. Therefore, special attention should be paid when choosing this method.

Method 2: Radiation therapy

Generally speaking, the radiation methods that patients can use mainly include external radiation and intracavitary radiation, preoperative radiation and postoperative radiation. Because esophageal cancer surgery in the cervical and upper thoracic segments is very traumatic and has a high incidence of complications, patients generally use radiation therapy, which is less damaging and has better efficacy than surgery.

Method 3: Chemotherapy

Through years of clinical investigation, it is found that combined chemotherapy is not only an important measure for the treatment of mid- and late-stage diseases, but can also be used as an adjuvant therapy for surgery or radiotherapy. This is also a very important treatment method among the four major treatment methods. When combined with other treatment methods, the effect is still very good.

The above three are commonly used treatment methods for esophageal cancer, such as surgical resection, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other traditional treatments, but these methods will also have some side effects on patients. Patients are expected to take good care measures.