How to treat pancreatic cancer metastasis to the liver

Liver metastasis is one of the main reasons for the poor prognosis of pancreatic cancer, and it is also relatively difficult to treat. At this time, the most important thing is that the patient should be mentally prepared. Through active and effective treatment, the patient's quality of life can be improved to a certain extent. For the treatment of pancreatic cancer liver metastasis, only treating the liver metastasis lesions cannot achieve the expected effect. On this basis, the primary pancreatic cancer must be treated at the same time to achieve better results.

What are the treatments for pancreatic cancer liver metastasis?

The treatment of pancreatic cancer liver metastasis should be based on the nature of liver metastasis and the individual condition of pancreatic cancer patients. It is necessary to choose comprehensive, standardized and reasonable treatment with conservative treatment as the main method to control the further invasion of the cancer, alleviate the patient's clinical pain, improve the patient's quality of life, and enable the patient to safely pass the 5-year recovery period.

Tumors seriously endanger human health. The main treatment methods currently include surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine. The purpose of chemotherapy is to kill tumor cells through chemotherapy drugs, promote the death of tumor cells or prevent their proliferation. However, most drugs lack specific cytotoxicity, causing the death of normal cells, leading to complications such as bone marrow transplantation and systemic toxicity, affecting the treatment effect and patient compliance.

Clinically, surgical treatment of pancreatic cancer liver metastasis has poor effects, and patients are prone to a series of complications after surgery, which is not conducive to their recovery. Radiotherapy, chemotherapy and interventional treatment can achieve short-term effects, but at the same time bring more troubles to patients with pancreatic cancer liver metastasis. The reason is that these local therapies have no ability to distinguish between cancer cells and normal human cells. While killing cancer cells, they also damage a large number of normal tissue cells in the human body. The strong toxic side effects generally make it difficult for patients to tolerate, and also cause great liver and kidney toxicity.

CyberKnife treatment is a highly accurate image-guided radiotherapy device that can treat tumors throughout the body. According to the special structure of the part, different tracking methods are selected to easily achieve high-precision irradiation treatment of tumors under image guidance. The breathing tracking system of CyberKnife can synchronize the lung movement of lung cancer patients for treatment, and the total clinical error of treatment accuracy is <1.3±0.2mm.