How to treat advanced lung cancer better? Advanced lung cancer mainly follows three treatment principles

Nowadays, many people do not pay attention to their living habits, especially some male compatriots, who often smoke and drink. This is very harmful to the body and is likely to lead to lung cancer, especially in the late stage. It is very dangerous. Let's take a look at how to treat lung cancer in the late stage.

1. Improper surgical treatment:

How to treat late-stage lung cancer? For non-small cell lung cancer, except for some stages IIIB and IV, surgical treatment should be the main treatment or efforts should be made for surgical treatment. Even for locally advanced lung cancer, other treatment methods can be used to shrink the cancer focus first, and then surgical removal can be strived for. The biggest disadvantage of surgical treatment is that residual lesions may be left behind, which can easily cause recurrence and metastasis of cancer cells.

2. How to treat advanced lung cancer?

Expert chemotherapy is a relatively traditional treatment method. It can be used alone or as an important measure of comprehensive treatment. However, due to the large side effects of cancer chemotherapy, it often causes many toxic reactions, complications and sequelae, which brings great harm to the majority of lung cancer patients.

3. Radiotherapy has serious side effects:

Experts say that the side effects of radiotherapy for lung cancer are extremely great, which can cause the patient to become physically weak, have a decreased immune function, suffer bone marrow suppression, and have gastrointestinal disorders, leading to adverse reactions such as decreased appetite, reduced food intake, nausea, vomiting, and hair loss. More seriously, it can damage the patient's liver, kidneys and other major organs.

When lung cancer reaches the late stage, many people don't even have the courage to live and are basically on the verge of death. In fact, there is no need to be like this. Try to maintain a good attitude, don't complain about the world, just accept it calmly. It is very likely to recover if you receive good treatment in the late stage.