Side effects of radiotherapy for lung cancer Is radiotherapy effective for advanced lung cancer?

Updated on healthy 2024-03-07
4 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    Common adverse reactions of radiotherapy include nausea, vomiting, fatigue, etc., in fact, radiotherapy can be combined with traditional Chinese medicine to achieve the effect of increasing efficiency and reducing toxicity, and there are several others: physical weakness: patients may experience fatigue and weakness, listlessness, sweating, drowsiness, etc.; Decreased immune function:

    Chemotherapy drugs can damage a patient's immune system, leading to a deficiency or decline in immune function; Bone marrow suppression: manifested by a decrease in white blood cells and platelets, a combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine is recommended**. Fuda recommends that you seek medical treatment nearby to avoid delaying your condition.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    Radiation therapy for lung cancer can cause acute radiation esophagitis and even esophageal perforation in adjacent esophagus. For patients with chronic underlying lung diseases, radiation lung injury, radiation pneumonitis, and even radiation pulmonary fibrosis may occur. Radiotherapy causes disorders of gastrointestinal function, symptoms of dyspepsia, nausea, vomiting, and epigastric discomfort appear.

    Myelosuppression can lead to a decrease in white blood cells, thrombocytopenia, and symptoms of weakened immunity, fatigue, and fatigue. In the case of radiation, timely use of medication for symptomatic treatment, at the same time, the diet is reasonable, strengthen nutrition, and take compound wall-breaking Ganoderma lucidum spore powder to improve the body's immunity and reduce toxicity.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    radiation pneumonitis; radiation esophagitis (central type); decreased leukocytes and platelets; Fatigue, nausea, vomiting.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    1. Lung cancer radiotherapy is a method that uses one or more ionizing radiation to kill lung cancer cells, but this method will also kill the normal cells in the patient while killing the cancer cells, bringing certain problems to the patient, such as: hair loss, nausea, vomiting, low immunity, inflammation of various organs, etc.

    2. Radiotherapy for patients with advanced lung cancer is effective to a certain extent, and generally cannot be used for patients with advanced cancer, after radiotherapy, it can reduce the pain of patients (such as: pain and sadness, paralysis, coma, shortness of breath and bleeding) to a certain extent, prolong the life of patients, increase the best effect of patients, and also play a certain role in comforting patients in a certain degree of control.

    3. For patients with advanced lung cancer, poor immunity and low function of various organs in the body, it is difficult for radiotherapy to achieve the expected effect at this time. If the patient is older and has poor physical fitness, palliative radiotherapy (i.e., radiotherapy is given mainly for certain types of symptoms to reduce the patient's pain) can be considered to alleviate the suffering, prolong life, and improve the quality of life.

    4. Radiotherapy itself has a certain amount of radiotherapy for patients, and there will be a series of radiotherapy in the advanced stage of lung cancer, such as: radiation esophagitis, radiation pneumonitis, radiation heart injury, radiation myelitis, radiation fibrosis and systemic symptoms (lack of energy, decreased appetite, physical weakness, fatigue, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms).

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