How to care for oral cancer after radiotherapy Effects of radiotherapy for oral cancer?

If there is no cervical lymphatic metastasis in the early stage of oral cancer, surgery or radiation** alone has good results**. For intermediate and advanced oral cancer, surgery with postoperative and radiation** is more appropriate. How to care for oral cancer after radiotherapy:

1. During radiotherapy, the patient will also lose his sense of taste, or feel that all food is the same taste (usually metallic). It is only after a few months that the patient's sense of taste gradually returns to normal. Family members should patiently explain to the patient and dispel the patient's doubts.

2. Although the patient's mouth will be uncomfortable during radiotherapy, it is still very important to eat as much as possible. This is because patients with good nutritional status usually recover more easily. If you really don't want to eat because of mouth pain or discomfort, you can drink some high-calorie drinks, or even some high-protein, high-calorie soft baby food, and you can also eat some nourishing yin.

3. After radiotherapy, the patient will feel less saliva than before radiotherapy. You will often feel dry mouth, which will return to normal a few months after radiotherapy. When you have dry mouth, you should pay attention to protect your teeth, brush your teeth often with a soft-bristled toothbrush, and if the dry mouth lasts for a long time, you can ask your doctor to prescribe some artificial saliva sprays to alleviate it.

4. From the third week of radiotherapy, some of them will gradually turn red, become dry, and become inflamed or even rupture. Although this is rare, there is no need to panic when it does. The first thing to do is to inform the doctor in time; Secondly, do not wash or shave the irradiated area during the ** period, and do not use perfumes, talcum powders and lotions, etc., and finally, you can also ask the doctor to prescribe some topical drugs to relieve the patient's ** discomfort.

5. After two or three weeks of radiotherapy, the patient's mouth and throat will become inflamed and ulcerated, making it difficult for the patient to swallow food. If this happens, give the patient some soft food, never smoke, drink alcohol and eat spicy food. Drink plenty of liquid beverages such as tea, milk, and water to moisten your mouth.

After the radiotherapy is over, the patient's mouth will heal quickly.

Oral cancer care after radiotherapy should first of all not let the patient go to crowded places to avoid infection, patients need to pay attention to keeping warm after radiation, wear a mask after going out, and do not stay up late. In addition, because the stomach of oral cancer patients will be damaged after radiotherapy, and adverse reactions such as anorexia, nausea and vomiting will occur, it is recommended to supplement nutrition in time, eat more vitamin A-rich vegetables, and drink more milk, cod liver oil, eggs and other high-protein digestible diets to help the body repair damaged tissues.

Radiotherapy is useful for the early and middle stages, cancer as a hyperproliferative disease, chemotherapy is useful, but not for everyone, in the 40s of the 20th century, since the discovery of cellular immunosuppressants, more and more cell chemotherapy drugs have been discovered and used in clinical practice, cancer**, belongs to the individualized way, according to the type of cancer, the stage and the specific state of the patient. Determine whether chemotherapy is appropriate**. Decision on whether chemotherapy is effective, such as small cell lung cancer with a high degree of malignancy, patients may improve their symptoms quickly after early chemotherapy, but chemotherapy is not effective in advanced patients.

The curative effect is definitely there, but the degree is not the same, it is also necessary to emphasize that oral cancer is a disease, and early radiotherapy for cancer can occur in tissues such as the gum snake soft palate in the oral cavity, which has a certain effect. Patients with locally advanced disease can be given the chance of oral cancer by radiotherapy and chemotherapy If the oral cancer has metastasized, the symptoms can be controlled by radiotherapy, and the scope of surgery should be reduced as much as possible so as not to affect the function of the patient's oral cavity.

Radiotherapy has a certain effect on oral cancer, but it should be emphasized that oral cancer is a group of diseases, including the gums, tongue, soft palate and other tissues in the oral cavity, cancer can occur. Early radiotherapy has a certain effect, and patients with locally advanced disease, or those who are inoperable, require a combination of radiotherapy and chemoradiotherapy**, but surgery is recommended for patients in the early stage**; Patients with locally advanced disease can be given the opportunity to be treated with chemoradiotherapy; If oral cancer metastasizes, symptoms can be controlled with radiation therapy.

1) Strengthen nutrition: Give a high-protein and vitamin-rich and micronutrient diet, and can be supplemented by intravenous nutrition when eating and drinking are difficult.

2) Oral care 2 3 times a day, compound throat spray twice a day.

3) Protect the wound, control and prevent infection, and promote regeneration and repair. Topically, special mouthwash, procaine liquid, acyclic guanosine and other solutions can be used to gargle, compound Yunnan Baiyao to stop bleeding, and traditional Chinese medicine to nourish yin and clear heat have certain curative effects. Non-narcotic analgesics are given to those with severe pain.

4) Topical or systemic antibiotics if necessary.

The answer to this question about post-radiotherapy care for oral cancer is as follows: There is no doubt that anyone who has been found or suspected of oral cancer should seek medical attention as soon as possible. If the diagnosis cannot be made, you should go to a higher-level hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time, and large hospitals have oral oncology specialists.

At present, the five-year survival rate of early-stage oral cancer has exceeded 60%. Oral cancer is easy to do after surgery, in order to prevent it, Western medicine generally needs radiotherapy and chemotherapy, because radiotherapy and chemotherapy have no ability to discriminate, so it is necessary to repeat radiotherapy such as trembling reed therapy, after multiple radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the patient's immune function is reduced, the resistance is reduced, and it is easy to metastasize.

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