What should family members of patients with advanced brain cancer pay attention to?

For the treatment of patients with advanced brain cancer, surgery is no longer the main treatment measure, but end-of-life care should be done well. The following points should be noted: actively control the patient's symptoms and relieve the patient's pain. Common methods include giving enough mannitol dehydration intracranial pressure treatment to relieve the symptoms of increased intracranial pressure, and giving necessary analgesics, such as pethidine, morphine, etc., to relieve the patient's pain symptoms. The diet should not be too salty, and you should not drink too much water. These may aggravate the symptoms of cerebral edema and may cause hemiplegia. Attention should be paid to the patient's body massage to promote blood circulation. If there is urinary incontinence, it should be kept clean and clean. The second point is to try to relieve the patient's pain, use some analgesics and sedatives to prevent it, and the third point is to pay attention to the patient's gastrointestinal condition, try to pay attention to liquid diet, and avoid excessive burden on the gastrointestinal tract.

How to treat brain metastases?

Lung cancer, breast cancer, and nasopharyngeal carcinoma are common in clinical practice, but a small number of liver cancers, pancreatic cancers, gastrointestinal malignancies, and gynecological malignancies may also metastasize to the brain. It is necessary to actively combine the patient's clinical symptoms and related auxiliary examinations for comprehensive evaluation. Treatment of the primary tumor can reduce the probability of continued tumor metastasis. While treating the primary tumor, clarifying its immunohistochemistry and genetic testing can guide the immunotherapy and targeted therapy of brain metastases. Brain metastases mostly occur in the parietal-occipital region of the cerebral hemispheres. The tumors can be single or multiple, develop rapidly, and have a short course.

How are brain metastases from small cell lung cancer treated?

Characteristics of small cell lung cancer: high malignancy, short doubling time, early and extensive metastasis, sensitivity to chemotherapy and radiotherapy, high initial treatment remission rate, but prone to secondary drug resistance and easy recurrence. Small cell lung cancer metastasis is relatively common. Generally speaking, the disease is highly malignant, has a poor prognosis, and is easy to metastasize and spread. Once brain metastasis occurs, if it is not treated, it can only survive for 1-3 months.