How to treat advanced lung cancer? Four methods of treating lung cancer that you should know

Now more and more people are paying attention to lung cancer, which is a common disease among cancers and brings great harm to the patient's body. Many people want to understand the cause of this disease, try to avoid it, and do a good job of prevention. Usually, you must develop good living habits and eating habits, check your body regularly, and prevent it before it happens.

Pain in the late stage of lung cancer is caused by many factors. The most common pain in the late stage of lung cancer is severe pain caused by tumor cells invading the periosteum, which seriously affects the quality of life of patients with late stage lung cancer. What treatment methods should lung cancer patients take when they reach the late stage of lung cancer? The following experts will introduce to you.

1. Radiotherapy: Radiotherapy can reduce 70% of the symptoms of advanced lung cancer. External radiotherapy with different doses and fractions can relieve primary or metastatic local symptoms. However, patients with advanced lung cancer often die urgently due to strong side effects and complications of radiation. They suffer from cancer at the same time and have to undergo radiotherapy and other treatments, which cause side effects such as chest pain, nausea, vomiting, hair loss, fatigue, etc., and their quality of life is poor.

Second, lung cancer surgery: Although lung lesions can be surgically removed, patients with advanced lung cancer are in poor health and have low immunity, and surgery often causes their vitality and quality of life to drop sharply. If systemic treatment is not used, it usually does not last long, leading to tumor recurrence or metastasis, especially for small cell lung cancer.

3. Chemotherapy for lung cancer: Small cell lung cancer has a tendency to spread throughout the body and is highly sensitive to chemotherapy. The 5-year survival rate has increased from 1% to more than 10%, so chemotherapy has become the main treatment for small cell lung cancer. Excessive active treatment not only does not work in prolonging survival, but also reduces the quality of life of patients with advanced lung cancer who have symptoms and pain.

4. Biological therapy: Tumor biological therapy is the fourth treatment mode after surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. It is expected to turn tumors into controllable chronic diseases. Tumor biological therapy (autologous cell immunotherapy) can improve the effectiveness of cancer treatment with surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Lung cancer can cause great harm to the patient's body, especially in the late stage of lung cancer, which mainly takes the treatment of prolonging life. Everyone must do a good job in preventing the occurrence of lung cancer. They must develop good living habits and eating habits. Check your body regularly to prevent it before it happens.