How can small cell lung cancer be cured

How can small cell lung cancer be cured? Small cell lung cancer is a malignant tumor disease. In recent years, its incidence rate is very high. Its appearance brings great harm to patients. Patients must receive symptomatic treatment. Today we will take a look at how small cell lung cancer can be cured:

Drug treatment

When we use some methods to treat small cell lung cancer, we must not interrupt the drug treatment during this period. The effect of drug treatment is very large. Chemotherapy is a treatment method that uses drugs to kill cancer cells. Chemotherapy drugs can be taken orally or injected into the body through veins or muscles. Since the chemotherapy drugs entering the human body can circulate throughout the body with the blood and kill cancer cells in various parts of the body, this treatment is called systemic chemotherapy. Chemotherapy alone is not a standard treatment for early and middle-stage small cell lung cancer. Doctors often use a combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy to treat local, middle and late-stage small cell lung cancer. Experiments have shown that the combined use of chemotherapy and external radiotherapy can improve the local control rate of advanced small cell lung cancer and the long-term survival rate of patients. Chemotherapy can also be used to treat recurrent small cell lung cancer, but its efficacy is not very significant.

Radiation therapy

When treating a disease like small cell lung cancer, a common treatment method now is radiotherapy, which is also a relatively effective method for treating cancer. Radiotherapy is a treatment method that uses high-energy X-rays or other radioactive rays to kill cancer cells and shrink and disappear tumors. Radiotherapy may use external radiation (using cobalt-60 or accelerators outside the body) and intracavitary radiotherapy. Because of its special location and many important organs and tissues around it, surgical treatment is not an ideal treatment for small cell lung cancer. Most small cell lung cancers are very sensitive to high-energy radiotherapy, and radiotherapy can preserve the structure within the treatment range and is not easy to damage surrounding tissues. Therefore, radiotherapy is a relatively important treatment method for small cell lung cancer. External radiotherapy is a relatively commonly used radiotherapy method.

Surgery

Finally, we can also use surgical treatment at this time. The doctor will remove the tumor and cancer cells through surgery.

Small cell lung cancer causes a lot of harm to patients. Patients must receive symptomatic treatment according to their own condition. At the same time, they must pay attention to daily care and do not ignore dietary issues. Finally, I wish all patients a speedy recovery.