How long is chemotherapy for oral cancer?

Oral cancer. It is a common malignant tumor of the head and neck.

Its appearance seriously threatens the health and life safety of human beings. Oral cancer has an insidious onset and is not easy to detect at an early stage, and most patients are diagnosed at an advanced stage. Chemotherapy.

It may not be unfamiliar to oral cancer patients, many patients will use chemotherapy when they are **, and generally patients need multiple chemotherapy treatments to be effective, so how long does the chemotherapy cycle of oral cancer generally take?

How long does it take to receive chemotherapy for oral cancer?

Oral cancer patients need multiple courses of chemotherapy, generally 3-6 courses of treatment is appropriate, too short a course of treatment will have no effect, too much will cause greater harm to patients. The chemotherapy cycle of each course of oral cancer patients is different, according to the development of the patient's tumor, sometimes a course of treatment only takes 3-5 days, sometimes a course of treatment takes more than 20 days, and the doctor will also adjust the plan at any time according to the patient's response and effect after chemotherapy, so oral cancer patients should timely feedback their situation to the doctor during chemotherapy, and communicate with the doctor more, so as to facilitate the doctor to formulate the most reasonable plan.

How to care for oral cancer during chemotherapy.

Oral cancer patients should take care of various types of care during chemotherapy, which can help chemotherapy go smoothly and improve the effect of chemotherapy. Patients can be cared for in the following areas:

1. Body care. Oral cancer patients experience some adverse reactions after chemotherapy.

At this time, it is necessary to observe the patient's state, and family members should accompany the patient, and the patient should adjust in time if he or she is unwell, and tell the doctor immediately if he finds any abnormalities for timely treatment. Patients may experience dizziness, fatigue, fatigue and other manifestations after chemotherapy, and should rest more at this time. During chemotherapy, you should pay attention to the cleanliness of your body, change clothes and bed sheets frequently, and do a good job of oral hygiene to prevent bacterial infection.

2. Dietary care. Patients with oral cancer often have loss of appetite and indigestion during chemotherapy.

Adverse reactions such as nausea and vomiting, abdominal distension, diarrhea or constipation should be strengthened in diet. Patients undergoing chemotherapy are often deficient in qi and blood.

If the vitality is damaged, we should strengthen nutrition, supplement various vitamins, increase protein intake, replenish energy and physical strength, and enhance immunity.

Patients should eat a light diet.

For soft and easy-to-digest foods, we should pay attention to avoid some greasy, high-fat, spicy, rough, spoiled and other foods to prevent increasing the burden on the stomach and intestines.

3. Psychological nursing. Oral cancer patients suffer from both physical and psychological torture during chemotherapy, especially when the patient has some serious toxic side effects, the patient is prone to some pessimism, impatience and even despair of negative psychology, at this time, the patient's family should be more careful to perceive the patient's emotions, help the patient adjust his mentality, give the patient more care and encouragement, and assist the patient to carry out the disease with a positive and optimistic attitude, and tide over the difficulties with the patient.

4. **Nursing. The most important thing for oral cancer patients during chemotherapy is to strengthen**, such as patients have severe symptoms such as nausea and vomiting, diarrhea or constipation, and need some adjuvant drugs to relieve the symptoms. In addition, oral cancer patients who are very old during chemotherapy can also use traditional Chinese medicine for relief, which can reduce the pain of patients.

This is not a problem that netizens can help you solve, or ask your attending doctor, only he can understand the accurate situation.