How do patients choose lung cancer treatment? Which lung cancer patients are suitable for immunotherapy?

Lung cancer is a chronic hypoxic disease. When infections, tumors, nodules, etc. occur in the patient's lungs, chronic hypoxia will occur in the lungs. When various inducements cannot be eliminated, the patient's lung function will gradually atrophy and become abnormal, eventually leading to the occurrence of lung cancer. When lung cancer is diagnosed, patients usually complain of symptoms such as coughing, sputum, chest tightness, and shortness of breath. After diagnosis, patients should listen to the doctor's advice and actively cooperate with treatment. Regarding the relevant knowledge of treatment methods for pneumonia patients, Zhou Chengzhi, chief physician of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, is here to popularize it for us.

How do patients choose lung cancer treatment?

When patients choose a treatment for lung cancer, they must consult experts and the corresponding lung cancer team for advice. Because the disciplines are becoming more and more specialized and the choice of treatment is very complicated, it is important to consult very specialized experts, preferably oncology, respiratory, thoracic surgery, and chemotherapy departments, who are experts in lung cancer research, to help make a decision.

Which lung cancer patients are suitable for immunotherapy?

Lung cancer patients in the late stage, locally advanced stage and early stage are suitable for immunotherapy. For advanced lung cancer, immunotherapy can be used for those with negative driver genes. For locally advanced stage, immune maintenance can be used on the basis of synchronous chemoradiotherapy, which can also achieve good results. For early stage patients who are operable or operable but have certain difficulties in surgery, immunotherapy combined with chemotherapy can be used to reduce the tumor, and then surgical resection can be performed to cure it. In addition, when targeted therapy is ineffective, immune combination strategies can be used.

Surgery is the first and main treatment method for lung cancer patients, but it is the first method adopted by the vast majority of patients. Not all lung cancer patients choose surgery first. Since surgery has contraindications and indications, the choice of specific treatment methods needs to be determined based on factors such as the patient's tolerance, the location of the tumor, and the stage of the disease. After lung cancer is diagnosed, patients should actively receive treatment and insist on adjuvant treatments such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy after surgery to prolong the cure rate of surgery and improve the quality of life.