what are the treatments for Lung Cancer?
May conduct or coordinate individual methods surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy to treat lung cancer.* Treatment Planning
* Small cell carcinoma
* Large cell carcinoma (not small)
* Agreement agree to treatment
* Benefits and harms of treatments
* Other terms,
PLAN TO TREATMENT
Your doctor will plan your treatment after considering several factors including:
* Status of your health
* Type of cancer (small cell or small cells) and tumor size
* Cancer has not spread outside the lung (stage).
You can see other patients in hospital treatment applies not like you. This v their disease under different types and different needs of themselves with you. If you have any questions about your treatment, do not hesitate to ask your doctor or nurse caring for you. Ideally you should prepare questions to ask your doctor, and a close friend or family along.
This section mainly talks about the specific treatments for lung cancer, small cell lung cancer cells and not less, because there are differences. Details of treatments are outlined in the treatment.
SMALL CELL CANCER
Chemotherapy is the main method to treat small cell cancer. Chemotherapy helps many patients to extend the life and control symptoms better. Chemotherapy can be done individually, or prior radiotherapy. Combination treatment of chemotherapy and radiation treatment is called chemical radiotherapy.
Surgery is not normally used to treat small cell cancer, except for very early diagnosis. This v cell cancer usually has spread to other organs in the body before diagnosis, even if not visible on film.
After treatment, your doctor may conduct the inspection method of shooting and diagnosis as you track the response to treatment of cancer cells. There are cases where the effect of chemotherapy is very effective for patients with small cell lung cancer, doctors will conduct radiation therapy to the brain (called brain radiation backup) to reduce the risk of spread of cancer cells spread to the brain.
For cancer in later stages, radiotherapy is very effective in helping alleviate symptoms such as pain.
NO SMALL CELL CANCER
Surgery can help remove the lung cancer tumor cells are not small in the early stages (1 and 2). If patients have other health problems or not enough for surgery, radiation therapy can be applied to treat lung tumors. May conduct chemotherapy before surgery and / or radiotherapy. This method is called before chemotherapy support - neo-adjuvant chemotherapy. Can also conduct chemotherapy after surgery (chemotherapy support - adjuvant chemotherapy) to reduce the risk of cancer recurrence.
If lung cancer cells have spread to smaller size or close to the pulmonary lymph nodes, can be treated by:
Radiotherapy *
* Radiation therapy combination chemotherapy
* Surgery.
Cases of lung cancer cells have metastasized to the small parts of the body or injure one or more lung lobes, can reduce radiation therapy to shrink tumors and reduce symptoms. Can be treated with chemotherapy before or after radiotherapy, this approach helped reduce shrink tumors in some patients. The purpose of these methods is to help control symptoms and prolong life with better quality for patients. Radiotherapy are very effective in reducing symptoms such as pain.
STANDARD METHODS OF TREATMENT Y
Before you proceed with treatment, your doctor will explain the purpose of treatment for you and will usually require you to agree to sign the warrant to conduct the hospital staff treating you. The doctor will not be carried out any treatment without your permission, and sign the warrant before you need to know the full information about:
* Type and level of treatment under a doctor's advice
* On the benefits and disadvantages of treatment
* Yes or no other treatment alternatives
* Any significant risks or side effects of treatment.
If g does not understand anything, just ask medical staff to be explained again. Some cancer treatments are complex, so the patient was recommended explain is the common.
Will be u or if you have friends or relatives until the doctor explained the process of treatment, they will help you remember more fully the information provided. Can also better if you write a list of questions to ask before you get to the doctor.
Patients often feel the medical staff too busy to answer the questions raised, but you also need to understand the impact of information on treatments for you and the medical staff should be happy take time to help you answer the questions.
You can also request more time to think before deciding to have treatment or not if you can not decide upon a new doctor explained to you first. You can also decide not therapy, and medical staff will explain to you the problems if not treated. You should inform your doctor or nurse immediately responsible for their decision to write to your health records. If you do not need no reason to conduct therapy, but you should let medical staff know your concerns so that they can offer the best advice for you.
INTERESTS AND METHODS OF TREATMENT OF TWO
Many patients are afraid to conduct cancer treatment, especially because the side effects encountered. Some patients often ask the g will happen if they were not treated.
Although most treatments have side effects, but to understand these influences and more advanced measures to reduce or avoid these effects helped most treatments will become easier. The treatment can be specified by many different reasons and potential benefits vary depending on individual circumstances. In patients with early stages of lung cancer cells can not under the surgical goal is to cure cancer. Sometimes doctors will assign additional treatment to reduce the risk of recurrence.
If the cancer may have at a later stage of treatment is to control the disease, aiming to improve symptoms and better life for patients. However, for some people the treatment will not bring results and they will suffer the side effects without benefit g from the treatment.
If you are administered to cure cancer, would not it difficult to decide. However, if the healing and treatment is futile only help control the disease in a period of time may be making decisions very difficult.
Making treatment decisions in this case the TNH will be very difficult, and you can have detailed discussions with doctors. If you choose not to treat, you can still care assistance (mitigation), drugs used to control symptoms.
