How long can you live with advanced lung cancer? Common treatments for advanced lung cancer

Today's environmental pollution is very serious, which makes our bodies suffer and causes us great harm. Lung cancer in the late stage is a period of despair for patients, because they think it is incurable. There are still many treatments for lung cancer in the late stage.

There are many clinical treatments for advanced lung cancer. Patients should choose the treatment method for advanced lung cancer according to their actual situation, which can effectively control the condition of advanced lung cancer. How long can patients with advanced lung cancer live? It mainly depends on what are the common treatments for advanced lung cancer?

1. Radiotherapy: Radiotherapy is a commonly used treatment for lung cancer. It is divided into simple radiotherapy and comprehensive treatment. Simple radiotherapy is radical radiotherapy and palliative radiotherapy. The radiotherapy method should be determined according to the pathological type, lesions, metastasis, lung function and systemic condition of lung cancer. Comprehensive radiotherapy is a combination of radiotherapy, surgery and chemotherapy. It can effectively improve the survival rate compared with simple treatment.

2. Surgical treatment of early lung cancer: Radical resection of lung cancer is recommended as much as possible. Radical resection of primary cancer and removal of hilar lymph nodes is performed to preserve healthy lung tissue to achieve the goal of survival. For patients with advanced lung cancer, surgical resection of primary tumor is recommended. Lymph node metastasis should be removed at the same time, supplemented with radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Generally, 20% of lung cancer patients undergo surgery.

3. Immunotherapy: Immunotherapy uses immune preparations to enhance human immunity, eliminate anti-tumor immunity, and inhibit or destroy remaining tumor cells. However, immunotherapy is not very mature, so it can only be used as an auxiliary treatment and other treatments in clinical practice.

4. Chemotherapy: Whether it is early or late stage lung cancer, whether it is surgery or radiotherapy and chemotherapy, chemotherapy is one of the commonly used auxiliary treatment methods to improve the survival rate.

5. Traditional Chinese medicine is not ideal for the treatment of lung cancer. It can effectively relieve symptoms, reduce pain and improve the quality of life for patients with advanced lung cancer who are not suitable for surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Therefore, it is widely used in clinical practice.