How to treat lung tumor

How to treat lung tumors? What should you do if you have a lung tumor? Most people will choose treatment, but many people always have more and more difficulties on the road of treatment. The reason is that they do not understand the formal medical system and medical methods, and as a result, they are exploited by criminals and deceived. In order to prevent everyone from being deceived by criminals and for everyone to treat the disease smoothly, the following will introduce how to treat lung tumors.

Radiation therapy

1. Treatment principles

Radiotherapy is most effective for small cell lung tumors, followed by squamous cell carcinoma, and the worst for adenocarcinoma. The irradiation field for lung tumor radiotherapy should include the primary lesion and the mediastinum of lymph node metastasis. At the same time, it should be supplemented with drug therapy. Squamous cell carcinoma is moderately sensitive to radiation, the lesions are mainly local invasion, and the metastasis is relatively slow, so radical treatment is often used. Adenocarcinoma is less sensitive to radiation and is prone to blood metastasis, so simple radiotherapy is rarely used. Radiotherapy is a local treatment that often requires combined chemotherapy. The combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy can be used in a synchronous chemoradiotherapy or alternating chemoradiotherapy method depending on the patient's condition.

2. Classification of radiotherapy

Depending on the purpose of treatment, it is divided into radical treatment, palliative treatment, preoperative neoadjuvant radiotherapy, postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy and intracavitary radiotherapy.

3. Complications of radiotherapy

Complications of radiotherapy for lung tumors include radiation pneumonitis, radiation esophagitis, radiation pulmonary fibrosis, and radiation myelitis. The above radiotherapy-related complications are positively correlated with the radiotherapy dose, and there are also individual differences.

In addition, chemotherapy and surgical treatment are also used to treat lung tumors. Patients may wish to learn more about them. Patients with lung tumors must have confidence in the treatment and maintain an optimistic attitude to overcome the disease.