What is the best treatment for small cell lung cancer

What is the best treatment for small cell lung cancer? For this disease, everyone wants to choose the best method to treat it, and get rid of the torture of this disease as soon as possible after the treatment, but what kind of method can cure it as soon as possible? Let's learn about the best treatment for small cell lung cancer!

Everyone knows about lung cancer, but few people know that there are many types of lung cancer. Different types of lung cancer require different treatment methods and different dietary care for patients. For different types of lung cancer, only by choosing the right treatment method and taking the easy approach in diet, can the patient be cured much more likely. In fact, a large part of many cancer patients die from their own negative mentality, which is often referred to as "scaring themselves to death", and another part is that unreasonable diet exacerbates the deterioration of the disease.

Small cell lung cancer is often found in the main bronchi, segmental bronchi and other hilar parts of the lung due to its anatomical characteristics and is easily metastatic in the early stages due to biological reasons. Therefore, the main means of treatment is systemic chemotherapy. In this case, surgical intervention is not helpful. In some cases, early local chest radiotherapy can significantly improve local control rate and survival rate.

For localized cases, chemotherapy is generally given for four cycles. After the first and second cycles of chemotherapy, local radiotherapy can be performed sequentially or concurrently. Advanced precision conformal intensity-modulated radiotherapy technology is used as the main means to minimize and reduce the occurrence and level of adverse reactions. The recent efficacy can reach more than 70%, and the two-year survival rate is about 4.40%. The quality of life is also significantly improved.

Patients whose condition has been in remission or stable for more than 3 months should receive preventive whole-brain irradiation, because the brain metastasis rate can be reduced by 25% 3 years after irradiation, and the 3-year survival rate can be increased from 15.3% to 20.7%, without any damage to cranial nerve function.

About 2% to 5% of patients with small cell lung cancer have lesions located in the peripheral part of the lungs and are diagnosed after surgery. If local resection is complete and no lymph node metastasis is found in the hilum, mediastinum and other parts of the body, only 4 cycles of chemotherapy can be performed, and a review should be conducted after 3 months. If the condition is stable, preventive whole-brain irradiation should also be performed.