How to treat peripheral lung cancer in the early stage? There are three ways to treat peripheral lung cancer in the early stage

Peripheral lung cancer can be cured, especially in the early stages when the cancer cells are small and have no lymph node or distant organ metastasis, and can be removed surgically. Many patients can be completely removed and cured, but if the lesion is located around the lungs, without large blood vessels and nerves, the surgery is relatively easy and the chance of cure is higher.

For peripheral lung cancer, surgical resection is generally used. Minimally invasive surgery can be used for early stage patients. If the body condition allows, lobectomy can also be performed. In fact, after peripheral lung cancer is diagnosed, surgical treatment is the best method, but there are many surgical methods, and you must pay more attention when choosing. Let's learn about them below.

First, patients with peripheral lung cancer are relatively less sensitive to chemotherapy, so it is generally not the first choice for treatment. However, it can be used as an adjuvant therapy after surgery to eliminate small metastases and help reduce recurrence. However, for some peripheral lung cancers discovered in the late stage, targeted drug therapy can be used. Generally speaking, if peripheral lung cancer is surgically removed in the early stage, the prognosis is relatively good.

Second, after peripheral lung cancer occurs, clinicians recommend that patients undergo thoracoscopic assisted lobectomy or segmental resection and collect or clean lymph nodes, that is, complete and curative removal of lung cancer tissue. Early-stage peripheral lung cancer does not require postoperative radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and direct surgical resection can effectively control the disease.

Third, in addition to surgical treatment, postoperative radiotherapy and chemotherapy can also achieve the desired effect for peripheral lung cancer, but the drug selection process should be determined based on the pathological type of the cancer. If it is lung adenocarcinoma, pemetrexed plus cisplatin is generally used for four stages of treatment, and squamous cell lung cancer is treated with gemcitabine plus cisplatin chemotherapy. Therefore, the treatment of peripheral lung cancer is related to the pathological type, and patients should also pay attention to follow-up examinations every three months within one year and every six months within two years after chemotherapy, so as to understand the treatment effect and analyze whether the disease has been completely cured.

The treatment of peripheral lung cancer is related to many factors. Traditional treatment methods include surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapy, etc. The most important thing is staged treatment. If the patient is in the early and middle stages, surgical treatment is the primary method. After surgery, whether radiotherapy and chemotherapy are needed should be determined based on the patient's pathological condition. Therefore, improving the disease must be done in many ways.