What should I pay attention to when treating lung adenocarcinoma? How should I treat lung cancer with bone metastasis?

Don't wait to die if you have lung adenocarcinoma. Treat it actively and don't give up.

Having cancer is unfortunate, but from the perspective of a professional cancer doctor, it may be a blessing. Perhaps such a statement is hard to accept, and some people may think that the doctor is crazy and is making fun of cancer patients. However, if you think carefully, "God allows these patients to anticipate and plan for the future, and then pursue their dreams and enrich every moment of their lives. Don't you think it is a blessing?" With this view, this doctor's words may make people suddenly enlightened!

Lung adenocarcinoma: not afraid of active treatment and not giving up

Dr. Liu Xingjing said that there was an 80-year-old grandmother named Huang in the outpatient clinic. She was diagnosed with stage 4 lung adenocarcinoma and brain metastasis five years ago. Upon hearing the bad news, she burst into tears and felt that her life was hopeless. She directly told her children and grandchildren to take good care of her funeral. She also kept muttering about how many things she had not done, but in an instant, all of them were gone and she could only wait to die at home.

Because he couldn't bear to see the patient lose hope in life, Dr. Liu Xingjing spent a lot of time communicating with Grandma Huang to strengthen the patient's confidence in treatment and reduce her fear of treatment. He also suggested that Grandma Huang undergo EGFR gene testing. Gradually, Grandma Huang was moved by the doctor's words. For 5 years, she has taken targeted drugs that have been on the market in Taiwan for 10 years. She only occasionally has some side effects of rashes, but she finds that she lives happily and full of new hope every day.

Huang Nai is really different now. She gets up early every day to grow vegetables, plays chess and drinks tea next to the old house, and bickers with her grandchildren. She said emotionally: "I always thought these things were trivial before, but now I understand that these are my blessings. I hope more people can eat the organic vegetables I grow and be healthier."

New breakthrough in gene detection for lung adenocarcinoma leads to effective treatment

There is another touching case, the protagonist is an 80-year-old grandfather, who is also a master of dream-making. Dr. Liu Xingjing said that the patient is also a patient with advanced lung adenocarcinoma. He has undergone surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy without feeling any pain. One day, the grandfather announced to his family that he wanted to realize his dream of becoming a writer. From that day on, he spent half a year to compile his life experiences of serving in the army in Qinghai, the Sino-Japanese War, the Kuomintang's retreat to Taiwan, and other hardships and changes of mind into a book, word by word, and published his first book in life, realizing his lifelong wish!

Dr. Liu Xingjing said that although lung cancer has always been one of the top ten causes of death in Taiwan, the treatment of lung adenocarcinoma has been moving towards personalized medicine. Patients can choose a more appropriate treatment method through genetic testing. If the EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor) gene mutation is negative, chemotherapy can be used to control the spread and metastasis of cancer cells. If the EGFR test is positive, targeted drugs can be used for treatment. Currently, a small number of patients have survived for more than 10 years.

In addition to relying on effective drugs to prolong survival, cancer patients also need to cherish every day and regard being alive as a positive blessing. Dr. Liu Xingjing emphasized that patients with advanced lung adenocarcinoma should not be pessimistic. Currently, the medical community has a wide variety of treatment options for lung adenocarcinoma. Whether it is chemotherapy, radiotherapy or targeted therapy, there have been outstanding advances in the treatment of side effects. In addition to greatly improving the quality of life, it can also prolong survival.

Treatment and enduring pain are not the whole process of the disease. You can still maintain a good quality of life after cancer. You must uphold your original attitude towards life, actively go out and see, visit old friends, experience life, or fulfill the dreams you have always wanted to realize in the past, and practice the value of life. Such a life with cancer can also be a colorful pen!

How to treat bone metastasis of lung cancer

How to treat bone metastasis of lung cancer? With the continuous development of lung cancer, or if good care is not taken after treatment, lung cancer is prone to metastasis. Common metastatic sites include lungs, bone metastasis, etc. So, if bone metastasis occurs, how should it be treated? Regarding the treatment of bone metastasis of lung cancer, the following article experts will give you a detailed introduction to the relevant treatment methods!

After lung cancer metastasizes to the bone, pain is the most prominent symptom. The specific cause of the pain is inflammation and thickening of the periostium. Usually, bone metastasis occurs before bone pain occurs. 18.3% of patients with early non-small cell lung cancer develop bone metastasis, but only 27.2% develop bone pain, and most patients have no pain symptoms.

How to treat lung cancer bone metastasis?

1. Radiation therapy

The more common treatment methods for bone metastasis in clinical practice are divided into several types in radiotherapy, including 60 cobalt irradiation, deep x-ray machine and linear accelerator. For isolated bone metastases, after the lung lesions are controlled and stabilized by chemotherapy, high-dose, short-course radiotherapy can be given to relieve pain, kill cancer cells and control the development of lesions. About 50% of patients can completely relieve pain after radiotherapy, and about 75% of patients can significantly reduce pain.

2. Chemotherapy

Patients with lung cancer bone metastasis can receive systemic chemotherapy. While treating the primary disease, chemotherapy can also control the development of bone metastasis and relieve pain. Therefore, it can not only relieve pain, but also kill cancer cells. Chemotherapy is mainly a combination chemotherapy regimen based on high-dose cisplatin, which has a significant effect. In some cases, when reviewing X-rays, it was found that the bone metastasis disappeared and new bone cortex was formed.