How can patients with bile duct cancer reduce the recurrence rate

Cholangiocarcinoma is a disease with a relatively high mortality rate. It seriously endangers people's health. Cholangiocarcinoma is generally treated with surgery. After a period of treatment, many people find that the disease has recurred during follow-up examinations. How can patients with cholangiocarcinoma reduce the recurrence rate? Let's listen to the experts' introduction.

Measure 1: Pay attention to dietary adjustment. Patients with bile duct cancer will be affected in the digestion and absorption of food due to poor bile excretion, especially fatty food is more difficult to digest. Patients often show symptoms of poor appetite, abdominal distension, and irregular bowel movements. Therefore, they should choose foods that are easy to digest and absorb and rich in nutrients, such as eating more fresh fruits and vegetables rich in vitamins. They should also eat less or no high-fat foods, quit smoking and drinking, and drink plenty of water.

Measure 2: The patient's body temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure should also be closely observed to prevent the occurrence of complications.

Measure three: To prevent the recurrence of bile duct cancer, patients should pay attention to maintaining a comfortable lying position after completing treatment. Generally, the left side lying position or supine position is best to prevent compression of the gallbladder area.

Measure 4: Pay attention to consolidation treatment after the treatment is completed. Since the recurrence and metastasis of cancer cells have a certain latent period, it may recur within a year, or within two years, or even within five years. Therefore, we should take measures to prevent recurrence, that is, continue to consolidate treatment. Currently, traditional Chinese medicine is often used as consolidation treatment in clinical practice. Traditional Chinese medicine consolidation treatment can effectively prevent the recurrence and metastasis of cancer cells after surgery and after radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and can also reduce the toxic side effects of Western medicine treatment, improve the patient's quality of life, and prolong the patient's survival.

Measure 5: Psychological care also plays a very important role in improving the prognosis of patients with bile duct cancer. Medical staff and patients' families should encourage and enlighten patients more, so that patients can build up confidence in defeating cancer. Only in this way can the body's potential be fully tapped, so that patients can actively cooperate with treatment and improve treatment outcomes.

Measure 6: Regular check-ups are also the key to preventing the recurrence of bile duct cancer. Even after a series of treatments are completed, regular check-ups are still needed to detect recurring cancer in a timely manner. This will help seize the best time for treatment after recurrence and ultimately achieve the goal of increasing patient survival.

The above is a series of measures to prevent the recurrence of bile duct cancer. Only by doing a good job in dietary care, consolidation treatment, regular examinations, psychological care, etc. can we reduce the chance of cancer recurrence as much as possible and further improve the patient's survival time.