Effective treatment to cure lung cancer

Jul 24, 2011 by Alexander

Statistics show that lung cancer incidence and mortality worldwide ranks first in the United States and other developed countries, lung cancer death rate has more than other common cancer deaths combined. Form of lung cancer mortality rate in Beijing in 2003 has reached more than 28 percent, the Beijing average of at least every four cancer patients who had died of a lung cancer, lung cancer, how we should face it? If a patient is checked out of the lung, is not tantamount to a death sentence?

Have any illness and death can not be equated with lung cancer as well.
It depends on several factors. First if it is early lung cancer, we mainly through a comprehensive surgical treatment can be done clinical cure, and can not let this group of patients with lung cancer and death from cancer. If the medium-term patients, we can by surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other means to prolong life, not let the patient soon died of lung cancer. For those patients with a brain metastasis that appeared, bone metastases, had systemic metastases of patients with advanced, we can also treat a variety of means to reduce the suffering of patients, improve patient quality of life. Patients with advanced lung cancer mortality rate is relatively high.
Certain terms, had lung cancer does not mean death. If the first be able to do early detection; second through effective treatments can cure the disease out; the third to have a good attitude towards the disease; I think the quality of life of patients with lung cancer and life, or medical technology means that as we intervention can be changed.
We put the five-year survival rate of lung cancer patients as a standard clinical cure. Cured by radical surgery, disease, and survival over five years, we call the “five-year survival rate”; We also clinically known as “clinical cure rate.” We are specifically refers to the survival of cancer five-year terms, if the patient relatively late, only drugs, radiation, and so other means to prolong life palliative care, we usually use the “median survival” to calculate. Therefore, surgical treatment has joined the purpose of treatment is to extend the five-year survival rate, with surgical indications of lung cancer patients are clinically cured lock the object.
We sometimes use the “three one-third” to describe the current status of lung cancer treatment. First, nearly one-third of lung cancer patients were “scared to death.” As the status of high mortality of lung cancer, after some patients had lung cancer, could live three to five years or seven or eight years, due to ignorance of lung cancer treatment, do not know is that lung cancer risk, fear of cancer all day long , fear of treatment, patients affected by friends, relatives and friends die of lung cancer information, the doctor’s misunderstanding of medical terms, living and working environment, and economic difficulties that have made among patients living in fear all day, eat well, sleep well, treatment produce side effects also affect the patient’s quality of life.
One third of lung cancer patients receiving unscientific, unfair treatment, to the “rule is dead.”That is talked about the treatment of light or too heavy, obvious that some patients with lung cancer were confirmed by surgery as well finish the mediastinal lymph nodes, you need to do some book adjuvant therapy, such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy, Chinese medicine treatment, but he do not know, there are some families in order to prevent the patient medical condition, even if effective treatment to all rejected. Some doctors lack the knowledge, but also with the wishes of the patient did not provide scientific adjuvant therapy. Some lung cancer patients do not accept the scientific way to find some special remedies treatment, stage of disease was delayed, delayed treatment. Thus, the treatment is not too heavy, too light treatment is, to “cure” is dead.
Of course, there is indeed one-third of lung cancer patients with advanced lung cancer.
Tell lung cancer patients had pulmonary disease should be, as to the extent of disease, we can do some “art” of processing. If the patient did not tell the disease, patients with a doctor can not do treatment. For example, we introduce some female relatives with the disease when the patient said, “the doctor said you are right, this lung cut away.” Do not cut lung disease to healthy people do? (Laughs) I think we should tell patients that the lungs are sick, need surgery treatment, as to what type of lung cancer, small cell or non-small cell lung cancer, early, mid or advanced lung cancer, doctors and family can do in this area a number of artistic “deception.” However, if the disease did not tell the patient, it will definitely affect the treatment. So I always call the doctor and family members must be well-intentioned deception, white lies and the “artistic” and tell the patient “bad news”, they do not affect the treatment strategy on the matter. If you tell the patient was not ill, not sick patients say what hospital I live, I did not suffer any illness knife, I did not sick of chemotherapy, hair loss what these so-called “lies”, has caused harm to patients, this is very important.
Treatment of lung cancer which are the following.
The first is thoracic surgery. By surgical lesions of the lung, together with the complete removal of lymph node metastasis, which is the only means to cure lung cancer. Surgical techniques and now more than 30 years ago, with more than 20 years ago have made great progress, surgical mortality, the incidence of surgical complications, rate of exploratory thoracotomy has a significant, revolutionary progress.
The second surgical instruments we progress. We instrument surgery, vascular surgery, there is a good ICU care unit after surgery, we can make many of the elderly lung cancer patients through the surgery very well the perioperative period. I just came here to do programming before, just to give a 80-year-old comrade by a lung cancer surgery, very safe and very smooth.
Lung cancer is the second part of the treatment of drug treatment, is people talking about chemotherapy. In recent years, lung cancer chemotherapy is upgrading with new cell phones we use, the previous phone is the “big bricks and mortar”, and now the phone hit anywhere in the world can be connected, such as science and technology in the medical field has beenexpression. For example, our previous poor results of chemotherapy drugs, side effects and more. Now a new generation of chemotherapy drugs is the fourth generation. Single-agent chemotherapy has significantly improved efficiency, and significantly reduced side effects.
Fears brought before chemotherapy nausea, vomiting, leukopenia, lung infections and other side effects, and now we have a good symptomatic treatment drugs, so that our patients do not nausea, no vomiting; white blood cells after low, we can l white blood cells to fight the drug a day or two white blood cells to come up. Our current full-dose chemotherapy can be done, according to cycle to complete. Especially targeted therapy of lung cancer in recent years, is the only anti-cancer cells, not killing good cells, a new generation of targeted therapies in recent years to the Chinese market, especially for Chinese women non-smokers, non-small cell lung cancer adenocarcinoma have a good effect.
The third treatment is radiotherapy. That is, people say “electric grill”, the previous regional radiotherapy radiotherapy, the lesion and surrounding normal tissues and organs with radiotherapy, significant toxicity. For example, my fist is a lesion, radiotherapy, radiotherapy should arm the same time, there will be many side effects. Now start a new generation of high accuracy radiotherapy machine, the same as the directional blasting missile, killing only the tumor tissue, protecting the surrounding normal tissue. Greatly reducing the side effects caused by radiotherapy.
At present the three pillars of the overall lung cancer treatment is surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy. In the 21st century, we began to have other means of treatment, some high-tech applications in the field of lung cancer, like the physical aspects of the Gamma Knife, X knife, knife neutrons, protons knife, these devices are for those who can not surgery do not want surgery of lung cancer patients, but the premise is not to be lung cancer surgery, if surgery or surgery to get through radical excision.
Another is that Chinese medicine. And compared to Western medicine, we have more than this weapon. Chinese medicine through our vital essence to improve the situation of anti-cancer patients.
The fourth key addition to the previously said that, we have psychological treatment. Since we know that some patients died because of fear of cancer, we should strengthen the psychological support and treatment, was only a reason, now we start with the treatment of depression medications and other drugs, such as your bone metastasis, we have the treatment of bone bone pain and prevent drug-related incidents; you sleep, there are special drugs that make you sleep through effective counseling and effective drug treatment, the patient improved quality of life.
Regardless of which treatment, if surgery is only a means, if these means: surgery, radiotherapy, physical, chemical, targeting, psychological, and after a good combination of traditional Chinese medicine, treatment for a patient we believe that a reasonable individualized prescription. The key is how effective these treatments scientific combination of 1 +2 this combination is good, we will use the 1 +3 Well, we used 1 +3, must be combined with the patient’s physical condition, histological type and tumor biological behavior of the patient to develop a scientific and rational treatment, of course, have combined with the economic situation of the patient.
We want to do a chest CT, chest CT to see through the size of lung lesions, lesions larger than 3 cm, we call T2. Billion points of tumor size, we divided into IA and IB lung cancer.
The second through enhanced chest CT to see if the hilar lymph nodes and mediastinal lymph nodes can also be observed in the tumor or without foreign invasion, to distinguish between phase II and phase III lung cancer. Brain by brain CT or magnetic resonance imaging, we exclude the patient has no brain metastasis; through our bone scan to determine the patient has no bone metastases; by abdominal CT or abdominal B-ultrasound, to determine whether we have peritoneal metastasis. If there is no confirmation of distant metastasis outside the lung, surgery to the patient.
We can responsibly and we said that if the patient to the hospital, the doctor in charge you do not give you brain magnetic resonance imaging, bone scans do not give you, and do not give you abdominal B-, you can not surgery, if you do the surgery out of the question (unless you are not required to do so), if the doctor does not give you the responsibility to do so is a doctor, you can go against a doctor.
It is worth emphasizing is that the earlier patients can get benefit from surgery. In turn, have bone metastases in patients with advanced, and brain metastases, even if the lung cut, not over two weeks, or months, multiple bone metastases, and fractures, and surgery also reduces the resistance, can also be further deterioration of the disease. So I think, certainly after the first stage treatment.
And except for brain metastasis of the previous method, we are using brain CT scan, beginning in 2004, the International Lung Association and the Chinese Anti-Cancer Association requirements, lung surgery, it will have to do to go out brain metastasis brain NMR because the brain than the brain of the NMR can be found in more brain CT micrometastases work, you can be promptly corrected the clinical stage, adjust your treatment strategy. In recent years we have made some after another PET scan for lung cancer staging, it is more accurate than CT, it can be found in conventional CT can not be found in metastatic lesions, and get very accurate TNM staging. We believe that the conditions of the lung cancer center, patients affordability conditions, if the conventional methods can not be accurately diagnosed before the PET examination could be considered, this could make us a more accurate staging. We believe that is in clinical phase II lung cancer, surgical pathology report to be out of phase III lung cancer is confirmed, the clinical diagnosis of stage III lung cancer, surgical pathology report came out, proved to be stage I lung cancer, the gap between pathology and clinical diagnosis great. We have to rely on these checks, so that our more accurate clinical staging.