There is a 92-year-old grandmother living in the ward, half a year ago began to cough and right chest pain, the family took her to the hospital to do chest CT, found that the right lung has a 3.2cm lump, and there is intrapulmonary metastasis, so old, whether it is lung puncture or bronchoscopy, can not be carried out, the family does not want the elderly to do invasive examination, so they will be hospitalized every once in a while to anti-inflammatory cough, pain relief. Every time we went to the ward, the grandmother smiled at us with kindness and said words of thanks again and again. When the pain hits, they hold our hands and cry like children. Such an elderly person has to endure the torment of cancer, and God is sometimes very unfair.
Some people ask, if you have lung cancer, do you spend your old age at home, or do you try to go to the hospital for treatment? Since you have lung cancer, if you do not treat it, the lesion will inevitably gradually increase, and various symptoms will begin to appear, such as cough, hemoptysis, difficulty breathing, pain and so on. Once symptoms appear, the quality of life will inevitably decline, and how can we live in peace in old age? So this is a false proposition. It is the right thing to do if there is a disease and to treat it as soon as possible.
Compared with patients with hepatobiliary and pancreatic tumors, lung cancer patients can be said to be relatively lucky. In terms of therapeutic drugs, the world is committed to the development of lung cancer treatment drugs and treatment methods. New drugs emerge every year, and a large part of the treatment of lung cancer is accounted for. There are the most clinical trials for lung cancer, various targeted drugs, immunotherapy drugs with the widest indications and the most drug selectivity.
In terms of treatment effect, the survival rate of advanced lung cancer is not the same as that of 20 years ago. Advanced lung cancer survival period of more than 5 years abounds, and there are even many advanced lung cancer patients who exceed 10 years.
Diagnostically, lung cancer is one of the easier diseases to find and diagnose. Screening only requires a flat chest SCAN, and even the smallest nodules on the chest CT can be found. Therefore, the early diagnosis rate of lung cancer in mainland China has increased, and the proportion of early lung cancer patients has increased year by year.
The reason why many people are reluctant to go to the hospital for treatment is mainly because there are some misunderstandings about tumor treatment.
One is that the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy are very large, and it is not possible to treat people once they are treated. Today's chemotherapy drugs are actually relatively small side effects, coupled with stomach antiemetics, whitening drugs escort, in fact, the vast majority of people can tolerate radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Moreover, today's new treatments, such as targeted drugs, immunotherapy drugs, and anti-angiogenic drugs, have relatively small side effects.
The second is the economic reason, that the treatment of tumors is a bottomless pit, and the drugs are sky-high prices. In fact, with the large number of domestic drugs listed, now whether it is chemotherapy drugs, targeted drugs or immunotherapy drugs, it is really civilian prices, after the drug collection policy, many chemotherapy drugs are almost "cabbage price", such as docetaxel, which is more clinically used, only needs more than twenty yuan a piece, and can also be reimbursed by medical insurance.
If you have lung cancer, do not believe in folk remedies and earth remedies, and do not go to regular professional hospitals for treatment, resulting in delay and aggravation of the condition. Traditional Chinese medicine plays a certain role in tumor treatment, but it can only be used as an aid, and relying solely on traditional Chinese medicine will not work. Have already had lung cancer, want to spend the old age, you have to try to go to the hospital for treatment, even if you do not do any active treatment, only nutritional support and pain relief, can also reduce pain, so that the quality of life to a certain extent to improve.