Chinese medicine for lung cancer

Lung cancer is a malignant tumor disease. After it occurs, it will cause various symptoms. There is no way to achieve a good treatment effect, which leads to the life span of most patients being affected. In fact, the most important thing after lung cancer surgery is to regulate your body. You can take some Chinese herbal medicine for auxiliary treatment, so that the clinical manifestations can be well controlled.

1. Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is the main treatment for lung cancer, and more than 90% of lung cancers require chemotherapy. The efficacy of chemotherapy for small cell lung cancer is relatively certain regardless of whether it is in the early or late stages. Even about 1% of early small cell lung cancer can be cured through chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is also the main method for treating non-small cell lung cancer. The tumor remission rate of chemotherapy in treating non-small cell lung cancer is 40% to 50%. Chemotherapy generally cannot cure non-small cell lung cancer, but can only prolong patient survival and improve quality of life.

Chemotherapy is divided into therapeutic chemotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy. Chemotherapy requires the use of different chemotherapy drugs and different chemotherapy regimens according to the different histological types of lung cancer. In addition to killing tumor cells, chemotherapy can also damage normal cells in the human body. Therefore, chemotherapy needs to be carried out under the guidance of an oncologist. In recent years, the role of chemotherapy in lung cancer is no longer limited to patients with advanced lung cancer who are not candidates for surgery, but is often included as a systemic treatment in the comprehensive treatment plan for lung cancer. Chemotherapy can inhibit the bone marrow hematopoietic system, mainly causing a decrease in white blood cells and platelets. Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor and platelet-stimulating factor can be used for treatment. Chemotherapy is divided into therapeutic chemotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy.

2. Radiotherapy

1. Treatment principles

Radiotherapy is most effective for small cell lung cancer, followed by squamous cell carcinoma, and the worst for adenocarcinoma. The irradiation field for lung cancer radiotherapy should include the primary lesion and the mediastinum with lymph node metastasis. At the same time, drug treatment should be supplemented. Squamous cell carcinoma is moderately sensitive to radiation. The lesions are mainly local invasion and metastasis is relatively slow, so radical treatment is often used. Adenocarcinoma has poor sensitivity to radiation and is prone to blood metastasis, so radiotherapy alone is rarely used. Radiation therapy is a local treatment that is often combined with chemotherapy. The combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy can be carried out in the form of synchronous chemoradiotherapy or alternating chemoradiotherapy, 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 cancer include radiation pneumonitis, radiation esophagitis, radiation pulmonary fibrosis and radiation myelitis. The above-mentioned radiotherapy-related complications are positively correlated with the radiotherapy dose, but there are also individual differences.

3. Surgical treatment of lung cancer

Surgical treatment is the first choice and most important treatment method for lung cancer, and it is also the only treatment method that can cure lung cancer. The goals of surgical treatment of lung cancer are to:

Completely remove the primary lesion of lung cancer and metastatic lymph nodes to achieve clinical cure;

Removing the majority of the tumor to create favorable conditions for other treatments is called cytoreductive surgery.