Lung tumor surgery cost

According to survey data in recent years, one in every four Chinese people who die now dies from cancer. However, after years of hard work in the medical community, the cure rate of cancer has increased significantly, and the cure rate of some early patients is as high as 90%. But some patients have delayed treatment due to financial problems, so the cost of lung tumor surgery has become the most concerned issue for many patients. Let us analyze it together below.

If lung tumors are treated properly in the early stages, the chance of recovery is very high and the cost will be relatively low. However, if the disease is already in the middle or late stages when it is discovered, it will be more difficult to treat and the cost will increase a lot. The cost of surgery for lung tumor treatment is similar for every patient. The difference lies in the radiotherapy and chemotherapy drugs used in the later stages of the surgery and the continued use of drugs in daily life. The cost of these drugs will be relatively high. The treatment plans will be different for each patient according to their different conditions, so the prices cannot be generalized.

Treatment of lung tumors:

1. Chemotherapy

The treatment of lung tumors is mainly chemotherapy, which can be combined or sequentially with radiotherapy. For less than 5% of early-stage patients limited to the lung parenchyma, surgical treatment is considered. Limited-stage lung tumors are mainly treated with synchronous chemoradiotherapy or chemotherapy and radiotherapy sequentially. Synchronous chemoradiotherapy is better than sequential treatment. Synchronous chemoradiotherapy should be started as early as possible, and preventive whole-brain radiotherapy should be given. Preventive whole-brain radiotherapy has significant benefits for survival. Extensive-stage lung tumors are mainly treated with chemotherapy, and local or metastatic lesions are treated at an appropriate time.

2. Surgical treatment

Patients with TNM stage T1-2N0M0 confirmed by mediastinoscopy or surgical staging can undergo surgical resection. Even patients who achieve complete resection still need chemotherapy after surgery.

3. Drug treatment

Single-drug regimen: Before 1990, there were many studies on the efficacy of many drugs alone for lung tumors. In recent years, the effectiveness of some drugs has also been observed. Commonly used drugs

Etoposide, phosphamide, amrubicin, paclitaxel, and some combination chemotherapy regimens.

IV. Treatment with Chinese medicine

In clinical practice, Western medicine mainly treats lung tumors with systemic chemotherapy, sometimes in combination with radiotherapy. However, while radiotherapy and chemotherapy kill malignant cancer cells, they also kill the body's normal cells. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy can achieve good results in the short term, but they are only local treatments, and usually only treat the symptoms and not the root cause. In addition, the toxic side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy are quite significant, often making patients miserable, and sometimes even accelerating the death rate of lung tumor patients.

Finally, lung cancer patients should maintain a positive and optimistic attitude, strengthen their confidence in curing the disease, pay attention to diet conditioning, arrange rest time reasonably, and strengthen communication with doctors, which will help improve the treatment effect.