According to different types, different stages of lung cancer patients, treatment is divided into 4 kinds, namely, surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and targeted therapy. Each treatment has its own advantages and disadvantages, the same, the curative effect of lung cancer is not the same, specific see table below:
Treatment modality | brief introductio | curative effect | |
surgical treatmen | Resection of local tumor, which is suitable for patients with early non metastatic lung cancer | The primary lesion was the fastest, and the early effect was good, But the scattered, invisible cancer cells cannot be eliminated. | |
Radiation therapy | Radiotherapy for killing local cancer cells | Early effect on cancer is good, but the side effect is big, Unable to remove the root cause | |
medication | Chemical drugs | Chemotherapy for killing cancer cells by chemical drugs; The commonly used chemotherapy drug cisplatin, carboplatin and pemetrexed, gemcitabine, paclitaxel, docetaxel, Docetaxel, Navelbine, NVB Changchun, Changchun alkali, Etoposide, campto, irinotecan, 5-FU etc | select |