What are the side effects of radiation therapy for esophageal cancer? The result?

The most important thing in radiotherapy for esophageal cancer is the pain in swallowing that occurs after 10 times of irradiation, and the radiotherapy department has symptomatic treatment methods to help patients get through. Radiotherapy has a good effect on esophageal cancer, according to the different pathologies of the tumor, the tumor can shrink in size, or even disappear, reducing or eliminating the compression and blockage of the esophagus by the tumor. Allow the patient to resume eating.

Analysis: Hello! Radiotherapy will reduce the body's immunity, bring a series of systemic dysfunctions and disorders, etc., can be combined with biological immunity**, can enhance the efficacy of radiotherapy, improve tolerance and alleviate***.

The main toxic effects of radiotherapy for esophageal cancer are bone marrow suppression, gastrointestinal reactions and radiation damage to the heart and lungs. The local dose of intraluminal ** tumor is high, and the effect on superficial lesions of early esophageal cancer is better. However, due to the limitation of depth, the effect on intracavital cancer in the middle and advanced stages of esophageal cancer is limited.

In addition, radiotherapy, like chemotherapy, will kill cancer cells while killing normal cells indiscriminately, which will make the body's immunity decrease and a series of ***. Traditional Chinese medicine like life protection can be used as an auxiliary means, which can enhance the first effect, reduce the pain of patients, prevent the first and metastasis, improve the quality of life, and pay attention to diet and necessary exercise.

Hello! Esophageal cancer diet should pay attention to prevent grain mold, harvest grain in autumn quickly, strengthen storage, eat fresh vegetables and fruits, and change traditional bad eating habits. Drinking water should be treated with bleach to reduce the nitrite content in the water, and vitamin C should be taken regularly to reduce the formation of nitrosamines in the stomach.

In addition, when fertilizing vegetables, to avoid the accumulation of nitrite, molybdenum fertilizer can be applied. Patients with moderate or severe hyperplasia of esophageal epithelial cells should be given riboflavin to correct vitamin A deficiency.

Hello: It is recommended to use Yao medicine at this stage, which can enhance the body's ability to resist diseases and reduce the risk of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, such as gastrointestinal discomfort and bone marrow suppression. Because Yao medicine has a direct anti-cancer effect, the use of medicine varies from person to person, adding drugs such as detoxification and evil dispelling, soft and hard dispersing knots, dampness and stasis, etc., can achieve better results.

I wish the patient a speedy **!

There is currently no way to treat esophageal cancer, and there are 2 traditional methods. But either way** is only a 3-5 year delay in life. Some will live up to 10 years.

My dad's experience is that direct radiotherapy can delay life. Even if you can't, why bother to use the knife to suffer again!!

1 type: general hospital general recommendation: surgical excision, if the operation is successful, it is okay to maintain it for 3-5 years, but there will be diarrhea in the course of life.

Unsuccessful surgery: The abdomen is opened and cannot be surgically closed. After a while, I have to do radiotherapy again and go back to the second method, which is very painful.

2 are a combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy**. Generally, specialized hospitals will recommend this, less suffering, less cost, and can also have the effect of prolonging life. The effect is basically the same as that of surgery. The later stage is also very painful.

My dad also had esophageal cancer, and it was discovered after a lot of later that he should not have surgery, but should have direct radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Experience...

The best methods for cancer include radiotherapy, chemotherapy, surgery, drugs, etc., and the same is true for esophageal cancer. However, esophageal cancer is generally squamous epithelial cell carcinoma, which is more sensitive to radiotherapy, so radiotherapy is generally preferred.

Whether esophageal cancer is better for surgery or radiotherapy needs to be decided according to the specific condition of the patient, it is recommended to go to the thoracic surgery department, perform upper gastrointestinal barium swallow, chest enhanced CT, abdominal CT, electrocardiogram, abdominal ultrasound and other related examinations, if the tumor location is not very high, there is no metastasis and contraindications to surgery, the first choice of diagnosis and treatment is surgery, if there is no chance of surgery, radiotherapy can only be considered, it is recommended that you follow the advice of a professional doctor.

Personally, if it is helpful for you, it is best to eat high-energy, easy-to-digest foods during or after radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and to eat in moderation during the period before radiotherapy and chemotherapy to avoid being absorbed by tumor cells and promote their growth.

Eat more liquid and semi-liquid foods. After radiotherapy and chemotherapy, due to the damage to the body, the vast majority of patients have gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea and vomiting, and at this time, liquid and semi-liquid diet can reduce the time for food to remain in the stomach, thereby reducing the burden on the patient's digestive tract.

Pay attention to the supplementation of trace elements to improve the body's own comprehensive immunity and achieve the purpose of disease prevention and control. This requires patients to eat grains such as corn and millet in moderation.

Strengthen a blood-replenishing diet. If you eat red dates, raw peanuts, carrots, etc. in moderation, you can also use traditional Chinese medicine for conditioning.

It is not advisable to eat foods that are hot and low in toxicity. Patients should not consume beef, mutton, dog meat and fried food. It is better to steam or boil food.

For the diet of esophageal cancer, we must learn to choose vegetables: medicine and food are homologous, and some foods have both dietary therapy and anti-cancer effects, so they can be selected and applied in a targeted manner. Foods that are beneficial to digestive tumors include leeks, lilies, cutlets, lettuce, sword beans, cabbage, etc.

Foods in daily life, such as garlic, green tea, soy products, etc., are also good anti-cancer medicines.

If you want to get better quickly, please refrain from eating spicy food, and you can't put these spices in cooking.

Don't eat aphrodisiac foods; Don't eat foods high in iodine.

In particular, don't drink alcohol; Don't eat hot food.

It can improve the surgical resection rate, shrink the tumor, and reduce the lymph node metastasis rate; does not increase the mortality of surgery and the incidence of anastomotic leakage; The modality increased the survival rate of this size, and the incidence of high stump cancer of anastomotic code decreased.