How to treat brain cancer patients who can't eat

How to treat brain cancer patients who can’t eat?

1. Common symptoms of brain tumors include headache, vomiting, visual impairment, dizziness, epilepsy, diplopia, etc. Generally speaking, patients have no appetite and cannot eat. The growth of tumors causes direct damage to brain tissue because the growth of tumors can cause brain movement or squeeze the brain.

2. If it is caused by digestive tract obstruction, a jejunal feeding tube can be placed under gastroscopy or radiation if necessary. Brain cancer patients are prone to symptoms of loss of appetite.

What targeted drugs should be taken for brain tumors?

Generally speaking, surgical treatment is recommended for brain tumors. Targeted drugs usually use the small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib to target the platelet-derived growth factor receptor, the small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor gefitinib to target the skin growth factor receptor, and the recombinant monoclonal antibody bevacizumab to target the vascular endothelial growth factor. If targeted therapy cannot be used, chemotherapy combined with traditional Chinese medicine treatment can also be used. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment can effectively reduce the side effects of chemotherapy, improve the quality of life of patients, and prolong the survival time of patients.

Brain tumors, first of all, need to clarify the specific nature of brain tumors. In recent years, with the in-depth study of the pathogenesis of brain gliomas, the development of targeted drugs has been promoted, mainly for epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors such as gefitinib and erlotinib, anti-vascular inhibitors: bevacizumab, multi-target drugs: sunitinib.