What are the treatments for lung cancer? Two of the most commonly used treatments for lung cancer

When people are diagnosed with lung cancer, due to the lack of timely and scientific treatment, complications often occur, and even cancer cells spread very seriously. Early detection and early treatment are necessary to effectively control the patient's condition. Let us study the article together. What are the treatments for lung cancer?

1. Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is the main treatment for lung cancer, and more than 90% of lung cancers require chemotherapy. The efficacy of chemotherapy for small cell lung cancer is relatively certain regardless of early or late stages, and even about 1% of early small cell lung cancers are cured by chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is also the main means of treating non-small cell lung cancer, and the tumor remission rate of chemotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer is 40% to 50%. Chemotherapy generally cannot cure non-small cell lung cancer, but can only prolong the patient's survival and improve the quality of life. Chemotherapy is divided into therapeutic chemotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy. Chemotherapy requires the use of different chemotherapy drugs and different chemotherapy regimens according to the different histological types of lung cancer. In addition to killing tumor cells, chemotherapy also damages normal cells in the human body, so chemotherapy needs to be carried out under the guidance of an oncologist. In recent years, the role of chemotherapy in lung cancer is no longer limited to patients with advanced lung cancer who cannot undergo surgery, but is often included in the comprehensive treatment plan for lung cancer as a systemic treatment. Chemotherapy inhibits the bone marrow hematopoietic system, mainly the decrease of white blood cells and platelets, and granulocyte colony stimulating factor and platelet stimulating factor can be used for treatment. Chemotherapy is divided into therapeutic chemotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy.

2. Radiotherapy

1. Treatment principles

Radiotherapy is most effective for small cell lung cancer, followed by squamous cell carcinoma, and the worst for adenocarcinoma. The irradiation field for lung cancer radiotherapy should include the primary lesion and the mediastinum of lymph node metastasis. At the same time, it should be supplemented with drug therapy. Squamous cell carcinoma is moderately sensitive to radiation, the lesions are mainly local invasion, and the metastasis is relatively slow, so radical treatment is often used. Adenocarcinoma is less sensitive to radiation and is prone to blood metastasis, so simple radiotherapy is rarely used. Radiotherapy is a local treatment and often requires combined chemotherapy. The combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy can be used in a synchronous chemoradiotherapy or alternating chemoradiotherapy method depending on the patient's condition.

2. Classification of radiotherapy

Depending on the purpose of treatment, it is divided into radical treatment, palliative treatment, preoperative neoadjuvant radiotherapy, postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy and intracavitary radiotherapy.

3. Complications of radiotherapy

The complications of radiotherapy for lung cancer include radiation pneumonitis, radiation esophagitis, radiation pulmonary fibrosis and radiation myelitis. The above radiotherapy-related complications are positively correlated with the radiotherapy dose, and there are also individual differences.

In short, we know a lot about the treatment of lung cancer, which is divided into two major categories: one is chemotherapy and the other is radiotherapy. When a patient develops this disease, the first thing to do is not to be too stressed. Instead, he should actively go to a national regular professional cancer hospital. Under the guidance of a professional doctor, radiotherapy can be used.