How to treat brain metastasis from lung cancer?

How to treat brain metastases from lung cancer?

Effective treatments for brain metastases from lung cancer include drug therapy, surgical resection, and radiotherapy.

1. Drug treatment:

Patients with brain metastasis of lung cancer can choose drugs with high blood-brain barrier permeability under the guidance of doctors, such as gefitinib tablets, erlotinib hydrochloride tablets and osimertinib mesylate tablets. These drugs can enter the brain tissue and have a good effect on the treatment of brain metastasis of lung cancer.

2. Surgical resection:

If the patient has only 1-2 brain metastases and no obvious nerve compression, surgical resection can be chosen after communicating with the doctor, and usually limited metastatic lesions can be removed.

3. Radiotherapy:

If the patient develops multiple metastases, or after communicating with the doctor, it is found that the risk of surgery at the tumor site is high, further relevant examinations are needed and head radiotherapy may be selected. Common ones include gamma knife stereotactic radiotherapy or whole brain radiotherapy.

Patients are advised to avoid excessive irritation and excessive hard food during treatment for better recovery.