Can advanced esophageal cancer be treated?

Can advanced esophageal cancer be cured? This is a problem that many patients and their families have. First of all, the patient needs to be strong-willed and still cooperate with scientific, reasonable and effective esophageal cancer treatment methods. Generally, when esophageal cancer reaches the advanced stage and the tumor metastasizes, the long-term efficacy of surgical treatment is not high, and the 5-year survival rate is below 30%. Therefore, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine are still the main treatment methods for patients with advanced esophageal cancer.

It plays a very important role in prolonging the lives of patients with advanced esophageal cancer. This treatment can relieve the patients' pain to a certain extent. Patients should still actively participate in treatment when they reach the late stage.

The treatment methods for advanced esophageal cancer are more limited than those for early stage. Experts recommend conservative treatment of advanced esophageal cancer, which can control the spread and metastasis of cancer cells, improve the patient's quality of life, and prolong the patient's life cycle. Therefore, even if esophageal cancer has reached the advanced stage, patients and their families should never give up treatment.

When the disease is diagnosed, it is usually in the advanced stage and the opportunity for surgery has been lost. In clinic, a considerable number of patients adopt conservative treatment. That is, the treatment method tries to reduce the patient's pain and prolong the patient's life. The conservative treatment method of esophageal cancer is mainly traditional Chinese medicine. The principle of conservative treatment of esophageal cancer in traditional Chinese medicine is mainly to strengthen the body and eliminate evil, and treat both the symptoms and the root cause. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that esophageal cancer is a deficiency in the whole body and an excess in the part, and the deficiency of the body is the root and the excess of evil is the symptom.