Chemotherapy: not on the mere mention of

More than ten years ago, because of the shortcomings of chemotherapy drug toxicity greater, plus chemotherapy to "protect" the drug is not very comprehensive and efficient, resulting in significant response, but there is also serious complications after treatment difficulties, the situation for the community in widely circulated, which now patients and their families the right side effects of chemotherapy still exist great concern.

In fact, chemotherapy has been great progress and development. If doctors on patients than good grasp of the situation, the vast majority of patients are able to tolerate chemotherapy. Of course, the doctors involved here, the level and clinical experience. Therefore, to better medical units most appropriate chemotherapy.


Advantages: increase the survival rate

The effect on lung cancer chemotherapy, generally speaking, is also not satisfactory, but has made great progress, partly through lung cancer, including chemotherapy treatment to cure the effect can be achieved under most circumstances prolong survival period of patients reduce pain and improve their quality of life purpose . According to the current study found that almost all the needs of patients with lung cancer receiving chemotherapy. More precisely, lung cancer patients may benefit from chemotherapy, in other words, to increase the survival rate.

Program: Individual decisions are stress

However, when chemotherapy is to pay attention, not all lung cancer patients need chemotherapy beginning. Some need chemotherapy before surgery, and some require chemotherapy after surgery, the former called neoadjuvant chemotherapy, which called adjuvant chemotherapy, some applications require. Of course, for the entire group of patients with lung cancer is such, but for each patient, depending on the specific needs, individual decision-making.

Chemotherapy patients in the choice program should obey the doctor's recommendations. To emphasize that the chemotherapy is not "lengthy" to the good things to the better conditions of medical institutions (hospitals) treatment. Generally speaking, according to small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer have different biologic behavior, the current chemotherapy program will be divided into small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer chemotherapy. Commonly used drugs cisplatin and carboplatin, VP16, topology for recreation, vinorelbine, gemcitabine, paclitaxel and docetaxel,.

Before chemotherapy: Do not be scared to death of cancer

The patients, before undergoing chemotherapy to fight cancer and establish our faith in the triumph. With the mentality of its great influence on the prognosis. In the community-something that: "cancer patients was scared to death of." This is baseless. In addition, the side effects of chemotherapy must be mentally prepared for that. Many people are very alopecia mind, in fact, alopecia itself is not painful, but also does not harm humans, does not affect the treatment, the key is to adjust mentality after chemotherapy can be re-length hair, completely having to worry about this point. Of course, but also the economic well prepared, whether it is good that the chemotherapy program, or "against" side effects of drugs are necessary to prepare the necessary costs. Another point to note is that his family to give patients more care and attention, this is very important.

After chemotherapy: adjuvant treatment

Many patients are concerned about the treatment of Chinese medicine. Objectively speaking, Chinese medicine to reduce the toxic side effects of chemotherapy and certain lung cancer symptoms to a certain extent, but right lung cancer only on the auxiliary status.

In addition, many patients after chemotherapy also concerned about how Office. The past can only be used after chemotherapy observation, support and symptomatic treatment. In recent years, there is a boom of new targeted therapy drugs "Teluokai", which can be used after the failure of a second-line chemotherapy treatment or maintenance therapy after chemotherapy, particularly suited to women and non-smokers, adenocarcinoma, particularly alveolar cell carcinoma, may have surprising results. Its drawback is the higher cost.