What does interventional treatment for lung cancer mean

Interventional surgery for lung cancer is a treatment that uses auxiliary methods to guide drugs and radioactive substances, or other physical therapy measures to the tumor area.

This type of treatment is a palliative treatment method. In clinical medicine, it can alleviate the main manifestations of the disease, relieve the patient's pain, and prolong the patient's life. It is a traumatic treatment with a relatively small area.

1. Interventional surgery is also a comprehensive treatment method. Lung cancer patients often suffer from hemoptysis, which seriously endangers their life. When drug treatment fails, bronchial artery angiography can be selected to determine the location of bleeding, and then embolization can be performed to achieve the effect of activating blood circulation. When lung cancer or mediastinal lymph nodes are metastatic and compressed to the superior vena cava, internal stents can be selected for treatment, because patients will suffer from facial edema, palpitations, and shortness of breath.

2. The bronchial artery injection radiotherapy method mainly relies on the use of bronchial artery blood supply. When the drug is directly administered through the bronchial artery, it will reach the location of the tumor again after passing through the blood circulation system, which can have a certain impact on the tumor. After lung cancer metastasis, the palliative treatment adopted can also be carried out through intervention.

The impact of lung cancer on patients is different at different stages. In the case of advanced lung cancer, the main thing is to prolong the patient's life span overall. Different medicines should be selected for treatment based on the patient's specific condition development. Generally speaking, palliative chemotherapy can control the pain symptoms caused by advanced lung cancer patients to a certain extent. Patients are advised to actively cooperate with the treatment and pay attention to their own emotions.