Several common treatments for melanoma

The key to treating melanoma is to prevent recurrence and metastasis. Therefore, in the treatment of melanoma, special attention should be paid to completely solving the root cause. At the same time, the actual situation of different patients is also one of the important factors affecting the choice of melanoma treatment methods. The treatment plan cannot be simply determined.

Radiotherapy is effective for the treatment of some very early freckle-type malignant melanomas, but generally has poor efficacy for other primary lesions. Therefore, radiotherapy is generally not used for primary lesions, but for metastatic lesions. There are not many ways to treat radiotherapy, but radiotherapy can be used to relieve symptoms in the case of metastasis.

Chemotherapy is not widely used in the treatment of melanoma. When surgery is not possible, chemotherapy will be used, mainly chemotherapy with a single chemotherapy drug and combination chemotherapy with multiple drugs.

Immunotherapy is a commonly used treatment for malignant melanoma in recent years. It is usually an immunotherapy after surgical treatment, mainly to stimulate the patient to produce a strong immune response to achieve the effect of treating tumors. In recent years, biological response modifiers such as interferon, interleukin-2 (ILA-2) and lymphokine-activated killer cells (LAK cells) have been tried and achieved certain results.

In my country, TCM also has a complete treatment theory and specific implementation methods for melanoma treatment, and it is also a commonly used treatment method. It should be noted that after the treatment of melanoma, the factors that affect the recurrence and metastasis of melanoma are also related to the patient's age, gender and lesion site.