What should you pay attention to when doing radiotherapy for lung cancer? Several points to note when doing radiotherapy for lung cancer

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.

Radiotherapy is a common method for treating lung cancer, but it is not suitable for everyone. In the process of treating lung cancer, patients should first take the right medicine for their condition and not blindly undergo treatment, so as to ensure the therapeutic effect of the disease and control the disease faster. Here are a few points to note about radiotherapy for lung cancer.

1. Treatment principles

Radiotherapy is most effective for small cell lung cancer, followed by squamous cell carcinoma, and the worst for adenocarcinoma. The radiation 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 that 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.

Lung cancer is very harmful. This disease is also the second largest malignant tumor in my country, so lung cancer patients should pay attention to the disease. Lung cancer is often accompanied by pain, so in the process of treating the disease, patients should also pay attention to pain care and actively carry out treatment.