What are the treatments for lung cancer? What is the best treatment for lung cancer?

Do you feel desperate when you suffer from lung cancer? If so, lung cancer will not be kind to you. If you maintain an optimistic and positive attitude, life will not be so bad. You can even recover from early stage of the disease through treatment. Are you still unwilling to bow to fate? Then the experts will introduce you to several treatment methods for lung cancer.

How to treat lung cancer? Surgical treatment

Surgery is the first choice for radical treatment of lung cancer. For non-small cell lung cancer, except for some stage IIIb and IV, surgical treatment should be the main treatment or strive for surgical treatment. Radical resection is the only treatment method that can achieve clinical cure for lung cancer patients so far. Even for locally advanced lung cancer, other treatment methods can be used to shrink the cancer lesions first, and then strive for surgical resection. If the lesion is small, comprehensive treatment can be reasonably arranged after surgery, and the survival time of most patients can be extended. Patients with early lung cancer, such as early stage Ia lung cancer, can achieve clinical cure through surgery.

How to treat lung cancer? Chemotherapy

At present, chemotherapy for lung cancer in my country has been aligned with international standards. Based on the international standard drug use for lung cancer chemotherapy, my country has also formulated standard chemotherapy guidelines for small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer. Lung cancer chemotherapy is divided into first-line chemotherapy and second-line chemotherapy, which means that even if the first-line chemotherapy fails, the patient can switch to the second-line chemotherapy regimen.

How should lung cancer be treated? Radiation therapy

Radiotherapy is one of the commonly used methods for lung cancer treatment. However, the effect of radiotherapy varies with the histological type of lung cancer. Among them, small cell lung cancer has the best sensitivity to radiotherapy, followed by squamous cell lung cancer, and adenocarcinoma of the lung has the worst sensitivity.

After understanding the above three methods of treating lung cancer, have you chosen the right treatment? Of course, you should first go to the hospital to ask the doctor how to combine the above treatment methods. This may be more effective for your treatment. During the illness, do not do things that are detrimental to lung cancer. Try to maintain a good attitude. Finally, I hope that lung cancer patients can recover quickly.