What should be paid attention to during the treatment of lung cancer? These issues should be paid attention to when treating lung cancer

Lung cancer is a disease that causes serious harm to the lungs. If the disease develops to the late stage, it is often difficult to treat. Therefore, the most important thing for lung cancer is to take measures early. We know that a person's mentality plays a very important role in recovery from the disease, so building confidence is very important. Here, the experts will give you a detailed introduction, and I hope it will be helpful to everyone.

What should we know when choosing a treatment for lung cancer? Chinese medicine experts tell us that surgery is the first choice for treatment. All patients in the early stage without surgical contraindications should consider surgical resection. Squamous cell carcinoma has a higher chance of surgical resection, followed by adenocarcinoma. Small cell carcinoma has a poorer surgical effect and is no longer the first choice in recent years. Unfortunately, 80% of lung cancer patients are already in the middle and late stages when they are discovered, and they are not suitable for surgery, thus losing the chance of radical cure.

Chemotherapy is very important in the treatment of lung cancer, especially small cell lung cancer is very sensitive to chemotherapy, and chemotherapy plus radiotherapy can often achieve cure. Chemotherapy is less effective for squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma. However, since surgery and radiotherapy are only local treatments, even if the primary lesion is very small, the possibility of distant metastasis cannot be ruled out. Therefore, chemotherapy is still needed after surgery and radiotherapy to remove tiny lesions in the blood, lymph and distant areas. For patients in the late stage who cannot undergo surgery or radiotherapy and for patients with recurrence, chemotherapy is also an effective treatment for lung cancer.

The above is an introduction to "issues that need attention during the treatment of lung cancer". Lung cancer causes great harm to patients and has a very high mortality rate, so we should not underestimate it. Once lung cancer-related symptoms are found, take timely measures and go to a regular hospital for examination to avoid the disease reaching an incurable stage in the late stage.