What to do if pancreatic cancer recurs or metastasizes

Cancer is prone to recurrence or metastasis, which is a more serious blow to patients. Pancreatic cancer is a common malignant tumor disease. This disease brings great harm to patients and may even lead to death. Nowadays, the most common method is surgical treatment, and postoperative recurrence is the most common. So, what is the best treatment for postoperative recurrence of pancreatic cancer? Let's find out together.

Treatment options for pancreatic cancer recurrence after surgery include:

Pancreatic cancer is a highly malignant tumor that can lead to a very poor prognosis due to its highly invasive nature. Many pancreatic cancer patients need surgical treatment, but after surgery, the patient's physical vitality is severely damaged and postoperative recurrence is very common.

1. Clinically, many pancreatic cancer patients receive chemotherapy as an auxiliary treatment after surgical treatment, in an effort to completely kill the remaining cancer cells in the body. However, chemotherapy can also bring great side effects while treating the disease. While killing cancer cells, chemotherapy will also kill healthy cells, damaging the patient's body immunity and causing secondary damage to pancreatic cancer patients. Chemotherapy cannot kill dormant cancer cells, and it is easy to leave residues, leaving hidden dangers of recurrence and metastasis. At the same time, chemotherapy can also cause certain damage to the internal organs of pancreatic cancer patients.

2. What is the best treatment for postoperative recurrence of pancreatic cancer patients? The combined use of chemotherapy and biological immunotherapy technology can effectively make up for the deficiencies, effectively remove residual cancer cells after surgery, avoid spread and metastasis, and reduce the toxic and side effects of chemotherapy, alleviate the pain of pancreatic cancer patients, prolong survival, and improve the quality of life; enhance the sensitivity of chemotherapy drugs, improve the efficacy of chemotherapy, and prevent the metastasis and recurrence of pancreatic cancer.

3. In terms of anti-tumor treatment, for patients with early pancreatic cancer, postoperative radiotherapy and chemotherapy are the main means to prevent the metastasis and recurrence of cancer cells. Patients need to have regular and timely checkups and seek medical attention immediately if they find abnormal symptoms. It should be noted that as long as the recurrence of pancreatic cancer patients after surgery is in the middle and late stages, it is difficult to have another surgery opportunity. At present, the better radiotherapy method is CyberKnife treatment. CyberKnife treats pancreatic cancer, and under the guidance of intelligent imaging, uses a robotic arm to accurately and non-invasively destroy tumors with multiple beams of high-energy rays. Multiple beams of radiation are focused on the lesion area to cause very high doses of irradiation, while the adjacent normal tissues are protected from obvious damage. Through 1-5 treatments, the effect of destroying tumors in any part of the body can be achieved.

I hope everyone has some understanding of the treatment of recurrence and metastasis of pancreatic cancer. Patients with recurrence need timely symptomatic treatment and need to strengthen their own care. I hope the above content can help patients.