How to treat lung cancer after 6 chemotherapy sessions?

After 6 rounds of chemotherapy, lung cancer can generally be treated with targeted drugs, immunotherapy, radiotherapy and other methods.

1. Use targeted drugs: Lung cancer is more common in clinical practice. The reason may be related to long-term smoking or genetic factors. It may cause chest pain, dyspnea and other symptoms. If the disease has entered the middle and late stages and cannot be treated surgically, it can be improved by chemotherapy. Common chemotherapy drugs usually include paclitaxel injection, platinum injection, platinum injection, etc. If serious adverse reactions occur after 6 chemotherapy sessions, targeted drugs can be used for follow-up treatment. Common drugs include gefitinib tablets, apatinib mesylate tablets, erlotinib hydrochloride tablets, etc.

2. Immunotherapy: Immunotherapy can also be used to regulate the body's immune function and improve the patient's survival. More common drugs usually include toripalimab injection, pembrolizumab injection, carrelizumab injection, etc.

3. Radiotherapy: Radiotherapy can also be used when necessary. During the treatment, radiation can kill cancer cells in the body and achieve the effect of curing the disease.

In addition to the common treatments mentioned above, if there are no obvious side effects after chemotherapy, but there are still residual cancer cells in the body, you can consider continuing chemotherapy.

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