What to do with an 86-year-old man with advanced lung cancer

What should I do if an 86-year-old person has advanced lung cancer?

Lung cancer in the elderly is a cancer that originates in the bronchopulmonary artery, namely primary bronchial lung cancer, or lung cancer for short. Lung cancer is the most harmful malignant tumor to human health and life in the world today. Its clinical manifestations vary with the development of the primary lesion, the location of the tumor, the size of the tumor, the impact on the bronchi, whether the adjacent trachea is invaded or compressed, whether the distant organs are metastatic, and the ectopic endocrine characteristics.

Patients in the middle and late stages generally have weaker constitutions. If advanced lung metastases develop relatively slowly, have no symptoms or are directly life-threatening, invasive treatment is not needed for the time being. Chinese medicine treatment can not only reduce the side effects of patients, but also greatly improve the quality of life and survival time of patients. Lung cancer metastasis in the late stage is not suitable for surgical treatment. It can only be controlled by radiotherapy, chemotherapy and drugs. If patients with weak bodies cannot accept radiotherapy and chemotherapy, they can only accept drug treatment. Clinical and experimental studies have shown that Chinese medicine treatment has certain immunomodulatory and tumor-suppressing effects, and adverse reactions are very small. Gene therapy for tumors is called genetic disease because the occurrence and development of tumors are closely related to genetic abnormalities.

Lung cancer symptoms:

Most of them are occasional dry coughs, with little or no sputum, and may have a small amount of white foamy sputum, which often occurs after fatigue. The coughing time is not fixed and has nothing to do with body position. Hemoptysis or bloody sputum is caused by ruptured capillaries caused by necrosis and ulceration of cancerous tissue. The amount and duration of hemoptysis are related to the degree of vascular damage in the cancerous tissue. Most of them are persistent, with blood streaks or small blood clots in the sputum, and the blood is bright red or dark red, which is generally difficult to control with treatment. Most chest pains occur in the middle and late stages of lung cancer, but if the cancer is near the pleura, early chest pain may occur, manifested as irregular dull pain or dull pain. When cancer directly invades the pleura, sharp chest pain will occur, which worsens when coughing or breathing. Fever, joint tumors, etc.