Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

    Non-small cell lung cancer, including squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, large cell carcinoma,  compared with small cell carcinoma ,the growth of cancer cells slowly, and diffusion transfer of relatively late. Non-small cell lung cancer accounts for about 80-85% of  the total.

    Advanced symptoms : advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients have fatigue, weight loss, loss of appetite performance and so on , difficulty in breathing, cough, hemoptysis and other local symptoms.

    Preferred non-small cell lung cancer treatment is surgery, especially early patients, as long as the physical condition to withstand surgery should be by complete surgical resection achieved clinical cure, supplemented by postoperative radiotherapy and chemotherapy , to improve survival.

    Late radiation therapy are divided into radical radiotherapy and palliative radiotherapy. For the chest, mild symptoms only, but not suitable for radical surgery or radiation therapy, locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients, usually immediately or clinically when required to give palliative chest radiotherapy.

    For the terminally ill, bacause they has emerged the chest wall, or even distant metastases, surgery has not completely remove the tumor, it should be based on the chemotherapy, surgery should not be preferred.

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