Mr. Zhang, in the three years ago was diagnosed with lung cancer and brain metastases, at the time was considered the survival time of only six months, but after surgery and radiation therapy to the undergraduate body after chemotherapy. During treatment, there is no discomfort, such as nausea and vomiting, after six after chemotherapy, the patient is still sustainable their normal work, and in out-patient follow-up of up to three years, there is no recurrence of the situation here. But the door follow-up period, the index has increased signs of cancer of the phenomenon. At this point once again to be admitted, the implementation of the first chemotherapy, the cancer index that is significantly decreased, but did not specifically during treatment uncomfortable. Still continue to receive treatment of them.
In recent years, continues to introduce new anti-cancer drugs. These new common characteristics of drug development, are the side effects (such as: nausea, vomiting, stomatitis and bone marrow suppression) less, the patient to accept large, and better efficacy, such as Mr. Chen was considered only in the past six months survival However, after treatment, after more than three years of the case is still good. Patients receiving treatment period, it would not have any great discomfort; and after treatment because the tumor cells to reduce and narrow, because of cancer caused by uncomfortable symptoms (such as pain caused by bone metastases, lung metastases respiratory discomfort, or jaundice caused by liver metastases, etc.), there will be greatly improved, thereby reducing the dose of analgesic drug use. Some chemicals do not need hospital treatment, just back to attending regular weekly injection therapy can be accepted. For the rest of life of patients and can facilitate further! In addition, some specific side effects of chemotherapy drugs (such as the new antiemetic drugs and hormones or blood) is found, it is to receive chemotherapy for cancer patients more good quality of life. In addition some new cancer drugs based on monoclonal antibodies, cytokines, cancer cell growth receptor inhibitors, or inhibitors of angiogenesis mechanism to control the cancer, these drugs to treat cancer mechanism is not the traditional control of cancer chemotherapy, the role of the way.
In addition the new concept of cancer treatment is more than the combined treatment Kodori style (multi-modality treatments), that is, with the surgical tumor resection surgery, radiotherapy, systemic chemotherapy combined with the co-ordination in this way can the survival rate of patients and do the best quality of life improved. For the combined radiotherapy and chemotherapy or surgery before and after adjuvant chemotherapy concept has been generally accepted by most physicians. Such as head and neck cancer, a new concept that combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy can increase the part of the local control rate; also like some of breast cancer and colorectal cancer patients, in the exercise after the surgery adjuvant chemotherapy can reduce the relapse rate.
In Taiwan, cancer accounted for the highest mortality of the disease for many years. According to previous reports, the traditional chemical drugs on lung cancer (especially the more common non-small cell lung cancer) treatment of the poor, and for some refractory cancer (such as oral cancer or other cancers), and one after another emergence of new drugs, in addition to some special cases, these drugs have health insurance payments, no extra money themselves. In recent years a number of these cancer metastasis to impose new, high efficacy of chemotherapy drugs, experience has shown that these patients not only fewer drug side effects due to excessive stop treatment, some patients receiving treatment, but also be able to have a longer survival time; and these patients, because of the tumor under control, because tumors caused by uncomfortable will be minimal, so the quality of life is also better. Such data show that new treatments for patients are indeed able to provide another opportunity. Even surgery can not cure cancer, can also have a chance of stroke.
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