What are the treatments for lung cancer? Introduction to common treatments for lung cancer

The incidence of lung cancer is relatively high, so many people are suffering from this disease. Therefore, if there is a problem, timely treatment is required. There are many treatment methods, which mainly depends on the patient's condition. Surgery or chemotherapy can be used. In short, no matter what method is used, it must be suitable for your condition.

Lung cancer is a very harmful disease. In recent years, the incidence of lung cancer has been on the rise. Lung cancer has brought shadows to countless families. Many people think that lung cancer is incurable and therefore lose confidence in treatment. Lung cancer is curable, so we should find effective treatments to treat lung cancer. So what methods can effectively treat lung cancer? If you are still not sure, take a look at the following content.

Generally, surgery is used for treatment. Although surgery can remove the lesions in the lungs, due to the poor physical condition and low immunity of patients with advanced lung cancer, surgery often causes great damage to their vitality and a sharp decline in their quality of life. If they do not cooperate with systemic treatment, the good times often do not last long, leading to tumor recurrence or metastasis, especially for small cell lung cancer.

There is also radiotherapy, which can alleviate the symptoms of patients with advanced lung cancer. External radiotherapy with different doses and fractions can relieve local symptoms of primary or metastatic lesions. However, patients with advanced lung cancer often die hastily due to the strong side effects and complications of radiotherapy. While they are suffering from the torture of cancer, they also have to endure the side effects of radiotherapy and other treatments, such as chest pain, nausea, vomiting, hair loss, fatigue, etc., and their quality of life is extremely poor.

Lung cancer chemotherapy: Small cell lung cancer progresses rapidly, has a prominent tendency to spread throughout the body, and is highly sensitive to chemotherapy, so chemotherapy has become a major treatment for small cell lung cancer. Excessive aggressive treatment not only fails to prolong survival, but also reduces the patient's quality of life, aggravates the symptoms of patients with advanced lung cancer, and makes them suffer from extreme pain.