Cancer Treatment
First, traditional Chinese medicine treatment
Chinese and Western medicine in cancer treatment, have their own advantages, Western medicine treatment has the advantage of quick, but often because of over-treatment which led to unintended adverse consequences. Chinese advantage is the effect of significantly alleviate the symptoms of cancer radiotherapy and chemotherapy among secondary iatrogenic damage to the role of a good adjuvant therapy to the treatment for the pathogen. However, serious side effects can cause a single system or multiple system failure. As my days of being created by physicians Zhang's "vanilla-based cancer soup" to musk, wild Cordyceps sinensis, Oldenlandia diffusa, all insects, wild ginseng and other main drugs, syndrome differentiation, can rapidly block the pathological process of cancer. Taiyuan Institute of Chinese Medicine created a new law to ease the meridian meridian to ease the lifting suppression, integrated row cloth points, you can quickly eliminate the symptoms, prolong survival of patients with health. Now for the treatment of cancer to take the majority of integrative medicine treatment options, in theory, early diagnosis, early treatment, as early as the mid-surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy have a small number of radical opportunities (due to treatment in patients with symptoms resulting from the feeling when it has developed into the middle and late, so Early treatment is only good wishes), combined with traditional Chinese medicine can play a synergistic role in attenuation. Surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy after the use of Chinese medicine can play a certain role in prevention of recurrence and metastasis. The use of Chinese medicine in patients with advanced righting strengthen our foundation, reduce pain, improve quality of life is an effective way to hospice palliative type. Now Chinese and Western medicine treatment of cancer with a means of combining the two can complement each other in order to achieve the purpose of improving overall efficacy.
Second, surgical treatment
Usually consists of radical surgery, palliative surgery, exploratory surgery.
(1) radical surgery
Because malignant tumors grow quickly, the surface is not coated, it and the surrounding normal tissue there is no obvious boundaries, local infiltration powerful, and can be transferred through the lymphatic vessels. Therefore, surgery should a range of tumor and surrounding normal tissue, and may be subject to violations of the complete removal of lymph nodes. This procedure is suitable for a more limited range of tumors, there is no distant metastasis, patients with a good physique.
(2) palliative surgery
Broader tumor, there transfer radical surgery can not be terminally ill, in order to relieve pain, maintain nutrition and prolong life, you can just make some removal of part of the tumor or surgery to alleviate the symptoms, such as PEG and so on.
(3) exploratory surgery
The internal organs of the deep tumor, and sometimes through a variety of inspection can not determine its nature, the need for thoracotomy, laparotomy or craniotomy check the form of lump meat, with the difference of their nature or cut to take a small piece of fast-frozen living tissue biopsy, clear diagnosis before deciding surgery and treatment programs for exploratory surgery.
3, radiation therapy
Radiation therapy referred to as radiotherapy, it is the use of high-energy electromagnetic radiation effects on living organisms, so that the structural changes of biological molecules to achieve the purpose of destruction of cancer cells as a treatment. Radiation to treat cancer, because cancer cells to radiation-sensitive. At present the clinical application of radiation are X-line treatment, and two kinds of r-line treatment.
The effectiveness of radiation therapy for cancer depends on many factors, such as clinical time, sooner or later, tumor histological types, and its sensitivity to radiation, the patient's overall situation and the circumstances surrounding the tumor are related.
The level of radiation sensitivity of tumors and tumor cell division rate, growth is proportional to speed. The same kind of pathological and radiation sensitivity is inversely proportional to the degree of differentiation, namely, poorly differentiated tumor cells while radiation sensitivity is high and the degree of differentiation, the higher the radiation sensitivity of the low. Therefore, according to the tumor in different clinical response to different doses of radiation can be divided into three categories: one is a radiation-sensitive tumors, often 50 to 60 Gy irradiation, tumor or disappeared, such as lymphoma, seminoma, dysgerminoma and poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma, small cell undifferentiated lung cancer. Another case the tumor is moderately sensitive to exposure to about 60 ~ 70 Gy, tumors disappeared before. The second category is the radiation insensitive tumors, the amount of its exposure close to or above normal tissue tolerance dose, radiation treatment efficacy is poor, such as certain soft tissue sarcomas and bone tumors. The radiosensitivity of tumor and its growth pattern is also related to the general growth pattern outside the tumor, such as sudden papillary type, polypoid, cauliflower-type is more sensitive to the invasive growth of the tumor, such as infiltrative type, ulcer type, were more sensitive than low.
Radiation sensitivity and radiation cure rate is not proportional. Radiosensitivity of tumor, although the partial efficacy, tumor disappeared quickly, but the degree of malignancy because of its large, distant metastasis opportunities, and thus difficult to cure. Squamous cell carcinoma of the radioactivity in the medium, but its less distant metastasis, so a higher cure rate of radiation, such as skin cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, cervical cancer. In addition, lymphatic sarcoma, medulloblastoma and other more sensitive. There are highly sensitive multiple myeloma, seminoma and ovarian dysgerminoma, Ewing's tumor, Wilms tumor and so on. The tumors can be highly sensitive to radiation-based, early cervical cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, tongue cancer, early esophageal cancer and other radiation can reach the five-year survival rate of 90%. Of these cancers are sometimes late radiotherapy can achieve a certain effect.
4, the chemical treatment
Chemical treatment is the drug through the blood vessels into the body, all the cells have an effect on the body. This treatment is sometimes referred to as "cytotoxic therapy", as used in drugs are harmful, even with a toxic, the body cells, whether malignant cells are damaged.
The clinical application of chemotherapy, there are four ways:
1. Advanced or disseminated tumors with systemic chemotherapy
Patients with this type of cancer is usually due to a lack of other effective treatment, often beginning on the use of chemotherapy, the latest in order to achieve mitigation. It will be of such chemotherapy is usually referred to as induction chemotherapy. Such as the introduction of chemotherapy failed to use other programs during chemotherapy, known as rescue therapy.
2. Chemotherapy
Refers to the local treatment (surgery or radiotherapy), the targeting micrometastases may exist to prevent their recurrence and metastasis of chemotherapy conducted. For example, osteosarcoma, testicular cancer and high-risk breast cancer patients after adjuvant chemotherapy can significantly improve the efficacy, improve survival or disease-free survival.
3. Neo-adjuvant chemotherapy
For the relatively limited clinical tumor, but surgical resection or radiation therapy have a certain degree of difficulty, and may be surgery or radiation therapy before the use of chemotherapy. Their objective is to reduce the tumor size after chemotherapy, thereby reducing the scope of resection, reduce disability caused by surgery; followed by chemotherapy, can suppress or eliminate micrometastases that may exist to improve the survival rate of patients. Neo-adjuvant chemotherapy has proven bladder cancer, breast cancer, throat cancer, osteosarcoma and soft tissue sarcoma, non-small cell lung cancer, esophageal cancer and head and neck cancer surgery can reduce the scope, or to unresectable tumor after chemotherapy changed into a resectable tumor.
4. A special way to chemotherapy
(1) endovascular treatment. Including cancer of the chest cavity, abdominal cavity and pericardial cavity effusion. Usually chemotherapy drugs (such as mitomycin C, cisplatin, 5 - fluorouracil, bleomycin) with the right amount of fluid dissolved or diluted by a variety of diseases drainage catheter into the body cavity, so as to achieve control of malignant the purpose of body cavity effusions.
(2) intraspinal chemotherapy. Leukemia and solid tumors can be violated in many central nervous system, especially the meninges of the most easily invaded. Treatment is usually thoracic puncture and intrathecal administration in order to have a higher within the brain fluid drug concentrations, so as to achieve therapeutic purposes. Intraspinal commonly used drugs methotrexate and Ara-C.
(3) arterial chemotherapy. Such as the external carotid artery branch catheterization treatment of head and neck cancer, hepatic artery in treatment of primary liver cancer or liver metastasis.