What are the treatments for lung cancer in the elderly? How to prevent lung cancer?

With the improvement of living standards, many people nowadays suffer from lung cancer. However, the occurrence of lung cancer is mainly caused by some bad habits in people’s lives, and it also seriously endangers people’s lives. Therefore, we should pay attention to it and must take timely treatment to ensure our chances of survival.

Lung cancer is a common malignant tumor disease that occurs in the human lungs. Generally speaking, it is a malignant lesion that occurs on the patient's bronchial mucosa, and this disease causes great harm to the patient's body and mind. Therefore, we should take active treatment measures. In general, when patients suffer from lung cancer, they will mainly show some related symptoms such as long-term cough, chest pain, blood in sputum, hoarseness, etc., and as the disease continues to progress, the patient will also develop pneumonia and malignant pleural effusion. Therefore, we should pay attention to this situation and be sure to control the disease in a timely manner.

Lung cancer is a common disease in our lives. Generally speaking, elderly patients are at high risk of lung cancer. So how should we treat elderly patients with lung cancer? Let us learn about it below.

First, radiotherapy. Radiotherapy can be said to be a common treatment method for elderly patients with lung cancer. Generally speaking, this treatment can effectively improve some symptoms of patients and can also play a great role in controlling the disease. However, radiotherapy has certain side effects, which has a significant impact on elderly patients with weaker constitutions. Therefore, we need to pay attention to this.

Second, chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is also a standard treatment for lung cancer. Generally speaking, during treatment, chemical drugs are used to eliminate and inhibit cancer cells in the patient's body, and the patient's condition can be fully improved, thereby greatly prolonging the patient's survival chance.

Third, surgical treatment is usually a very important treatment method for elderly patients with lung cancer, because this treatment can effectively remove the patient's tumor and enable the patient to achieve adequate treatment. However, surgical treatment is suitable for patients in the early stage without metastasis. For patients with late-stage cancer cell metastasis, surgery can no longer be performed.

In short, lung cancer is a disease that cannot be unprevented. We should take active preventive measures against this disease in our lives. First of all, we must change some bad living habits, avoid long-term smoking and drinking, stay away from items with ionizing radiation, avoid staying up late, and ensure that the body is fully adjusted. We must also pay full attention to our diet, ensure a healthy diet, and eat more foods that are good for the body and can fight cancer cells. Only in this way can we effectively control the occurrence of cancer.