What is the better treatment for esophageal cancer after two radiotherapy?

Updated on healthy 2024-04-24
4 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    Whether the operation can be performed depends not only on whether there is metastasis, but also on the location and whether the patient's constitution is suitable or not. Complications after surgery are:

    1. Anastomotic leakage: This is a serious complication of esophageal cancer after surgery, which generally occurs 4 to 6 days after surgery, and may be later, with an incidence of about 5%. The causes of its occurrence are related to the anastomosis mode, whether there is tension in the anastomosis, whether there is secondary infection in the anastomosis, and the nutritional status of the patient before surgery.

    Anastomosis leaks are severe, and once they occur, they should be drained promptly and adequately or re-operated.

    2. Anastomotic stenosis: It mostly occurs 2 3 weeks after surgery, and some begin to appear as late as 2 3 months later, and patients mainly have different degrees of dysphagia. Anastomal stenosis is related to factors such as anastomosis mode, anastomotic infection, anastomotic leakage and the patient's scar constitution.

    3. Pulmonary complications: most of the patients with esophageal cancer are older patients, often with different degrees of lung diseases, and they are reluctant to cough up sputum due to painful incision and other reasons after surgery, resulting in bronchial secretion retention, easy to complicate pneumonia and atelectasis. Once lung infection occurs, the dose of antibiotics should be increased, and drug susceptibility testing and sputum culture should be done to select sensitive antibiotics.

    Sputum-reducing drugs are given to facilitate coughing up of sputum, and nasal cannula or fiberoptic bronchoscopy suctioning is done if necessary.

    4. Empyema: Due to the presence of bacteria in the esophagus under normal circumstances, esophageal cancer surgery is a contaminated operation, and empyema can be complicated after surgery. The best principle for empyema is closed thoracostomy and antibiotics.

    5. Chylothorax: The thoracic duct is an anatomical structure that drains the abdominal cavity and part of the thoracic lymphatic fluid, which is accompanied near the esophagus and may be damaged during surgery. If the tumor is outwardly invaded, it is more likely to be damaged.

    Thoracic duct injury is characterized by intrathoracic drainage of chyle-like fluid with a drainage volume of more than 500 mL per day. Once the diagnosis of chylothorax is confirmed, thoracostomy should be performed, observed for 1 2 days, and if there is no sign of healing, the thoracotomy should be ligated and sutured again to close the broken chest duct, and it should not be delayed for too long.

    6. Others: such as gastric torsion, diaphragmatic hernia, laryngeal nerve injury, etc., the incidence is very low.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    Among the cases of esophageal cancer, there are many middle and advanced stages, and about 50% of them have metastasis symptoms within 5 years after **, so the combination of Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine can be a good synergy and toxicity reduction, shorten the recovery cycle, and prevent metastasis. The survival rate of esophageal cancer is still relatively good. The prognosis should be re-examined more often, and pay attention to the usual life rules, especially the diet rules!

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    High survival rate after esophageal cancer, which needs to be closely combined with traditional Chinese medicine**; TCM Esophageal Cancer TCM is suitable for cancer patients at various stages, which can not only inhibit the deterioration of the condition, but also improve the chance of prolonging survival.

    There are many clinical advantages of esophageal tumors in traditional Chinese medicine, and traditional Chinese medicine is more suitable for patients who are weak and unable to tolerate Western medicine, and has many anti-cancer advantages.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    The poison of the release Chongxiang healing chain is indeed great.

    It is also true that there is a problem with excessive chemoradiotherapy.

    Whether surgery and chemoradiotherapy are based on the principle of whether the patient's physiological functions are allowed: it can be done if the conditions are met; If you don't meet the conditions, you have to do it, and the disadvantages outweigh the benefits. This is why some people do it well, and some people find it worse after doing it (the key is to see whether the individual is eligible), and what kind of chemoradiotherapy regimen to use, as well as the flexible adjustment plan in the process of chemoradiotherapy, these are relatively scientific, and must be decided by clinicians according to the actual situation through comprehensive analysis and research.

    For example, old age, weak physique, less eating, poor liver and kidney function, weak immune function, poor heart function, and strong adverse reactions after radiotherapy and chemotherapy are not suitable for radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Therefore, it is difficult for others to make judgments without understanding the situation. However, regardless of whether the cancer is operated on or not, radiotherapy or chemotherapy or not, medicine (traditional Chinese medicine) should be taken and traditional Chinese and Western medicine should be combined.

    This one is certain (it can be operated on in the early stage, but it is not helpful in the late stage).

    Usually we always say "integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine", when encountering this kind of serious disease, it is really the time to integrate traditional Chinese and Western medicine, should be comprehensive, not just one method.

    Moreover, cancer is a lifelong disease (when the cancer cells have not spread, they can be removed, but even if they are cut cleanly, there are always cancer cells in the body, and with the accumulation of time, the ** rate is high), we must insist on taking medicine, and we must not think that everything will be fine after surgery and chemotherapy (after surgery and chemotherapy, there is still a long way to go, and the main task at this time is to prevent **). It's medical common sense. Many patients think that they have been cured after surgery and the doctor clearly says that "the operation was successful".

    This is obviously a lack of medical knowledge, and as a result, it suffers from this loss). You should take the medicine after the operation, and if you don't stop taking the medicine, you can not **, thank God it is already a great achievement. Not to mention not taking medicine.

    Chinese medicine can be fully considered. It is treated with traditional Chinese medicine pills for dissolving stasis and dispersing knots, detoxifying and reducing swelling, and for pimples and tumors. If you find the right medicine, the effect will be enhanced.

    Due to business relations, the author is well aware of the charm of traditional Chinese medicine, and has witnessed a large number of typical cases of malignant tumors being treated by traditional Chinese medicine, which verifies the uniqueness of traditional Chinese medicine in the motherland. In particular, it has a special effect on diseases in the digestive tract from top to bottom that can be directly in contact with medicine, such as esophageal cancer, colon cancer, stomach cancer, rectal cancer, and lymphoma. If you have undergone surgery or chemotherapy, one of the obvious effects of traditional Chinese medicine is that all kinds of uncomfortable symptoms of the patient will be significantly reduced and improved in the short term.

    Usually pay attention not to eat spicy, fried, barbecued, these are hot and dry foods.

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