How is a tumor treated?

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When a patient is diagnosed with lung cancer, it depends on whether the timing of tumor growth is early or advanced. Early and as soon as possible for biopsy, are through percutaneous lung biopsy or bronchoscopy lung biopsy, can further clarify the pathological classification and malignant degree of tumor, early lung cancer, thoracoscopic lobectomy is a very mature treatment method, especially in the current stage of lung cancer surgery five-year survival rate is very high. In addition, radiotherapy for small cell carcinoma is very good, and squamous cell carcinoma is also followed, relative adenocarcinoma may be less effective, radiotherapy is mainly to carry out primary lesions, there are lymph node metastasis of the mediastinal region to be treated. For small cell lung cancer, surgery cannot be done, or chemotherapy can be used if there is a relatively large tumor. Compared with small cell lung cancer, chemotherapy is relatively sensitive. For non-smoking adenocarcinoma, gene detection can be done for patients at this stage, and targeted drug therapy can be sought. At this stage, targeted drug therapy can be selected for first-line and second-line treatment as long as clear targets can be found. The effect is still very good. In addition, local radio frequency therapy is also one of the commonly used therapies. Immunotherapy is a new treatment developed in recent years, which can be supplemented with other treatment schemes. In addition, supportive treatment of traditional Chinese medicine is also commonly used in clinical practice.

How is a tumor treated?



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