Can recurrence and metastasis of tongue cancer be cured?

Medical advances have guaranteed the effectiveness of tongue cancer treatment to a certain extent. However, many patients experience recurrence and metastasis after surgery or several years after surgery. At this time, patients are very frightened and worry about how long they can survive. This is very unfavorable for the patient's later treatment to a certain extent. So, can the recurrence and metastasis of tongue cancer be cured? Let's take a look together.

I believe this is a question that every tongue cancer patient and their family members will ask. Clinically, in the early stage of tongue cancer diagnosis, since the cancer cells in the body have not spread or metastasized, patients choose surgical treatment. Through direct removal of the cancerous lesions, the patient's condition can be quickly controlled and clinical cure can be achieved. While affirming the effectiveness of surgical treatment, we also need to look at the disadvantages of surgery dialectically.

Clinically, surgical treatment can only remove cancer foci visible to the naked eye. Although surgery can remove most cancer foci, it cannot completely remove them. After surgery, there are still a large number of dormant cancer cells and microscopic cancer foci in the patient's body. If they cannot be removed in a timely and effective manner, there is a high chance of recurrence after surgery, which directly shortens the patient's survival period. Secondly, surgery can easily cause great trauma to the patient, causing great damage to the patient's vitality, which is not conducive to the patient's later recovery; on the contrary, a weak body is more conducive to the recurrence of cancer cells.

For patients who unfortunately have recurrence and metastasis, how long can they live? Oncologists point out that the length of survival of patients with recurrence and metastasis of tongue cancer is closely related to many factors, such as the patient's physical tolerance, the patient's subsequent treatment methods, and the care the patient receives. Among them, the most critical thing is to do a good job in the treatment of postoperative recurrence and metastasis.

Clinically, the main methods for treating tongue cancer are surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and traditional Chinese medicine. Surgery directly controls the disease and relieves pain by removing the cancer lesions, but it is powerless against metastatic cancer cells. Radiotherapy uses radiation to destroy cancer cells and shrink tumors. However, like surgery, radiotherapy is a local treatment and cannot effectively destroy free cancer cells.

Chemotherapy is a systemic treatment that uses various chemical drugs to eliminate cancer cells, control the deterioration of the disease, and prolong the patient's life. However, due to its lack of selectivity, it has the disadvantages of "not distinguishing between friend and foe" and "drinking poison to quench thirst". It will also kill a large number of normal cells, causing the patient's immunity to decline and producing serious toxic side effects. It is difficult for ordinary patients to persist. In addition, chemotherapy can only remove shallow cancer cells in the body, but it cannot achieve the effect of treating both the symptoms and the root causes and alleviating the patient's pain by transforming the body's internal environment.

A large number of clinical practices have proved that Chinese medicine, as an important method of cancer treatment, has a history of thousands of years in my country. Chinese medicine cancer treatment focuses on the overall treatment. While treating the "swelling", "pain" and "water" symptoms, it also pays more attention to the identification of causes and pathogenesis, focusing on the treatment of the three major essences of tumors, "deficiency", "stasis" and "toxicity", and adjusting the body's immunity and yin and yang balance, so it is not easy to relapse after recovery, and the effect is long-lasting and stable.