Can lung cancer be cured?

What should I do if I get lung cancer? Many patients or their family members will feel confused. They can’t help but think about how a good person could get cancer. He is usually healthy. Let’s take a look at these first.
First, let’s take a look at the factors related to lung cancer. The exact cause of lung cancer is still unclear. After years of extensive investigation and research, it is now recognized that the following factors are closely related to the causes of lung cancer.
Let’s talk about the symptoms of lung cancer? The onset of lung cancer has a long incubation period and is hidden. There are no obvious symptoms in the early stage. The symptoms are diverse and lack characteristics. Therefore, the misdiagnosis rate of lung cancer is high, accounting for approximately %~% should be taken seriously. The reasons are analyzed as follows: Cough, chest pain, chest tightness, and fever are easily confused with other diseases.
Some symptoms of lung cancer do not correspond to the location of the disease, which are called extrapulmonary symptoms (will be described in detail later).
Some patients have mild symptoms or no symptoms at all, making early detection difficult.
Symptoms caused by primary tumors
The most common initial symptom of cough. Depending on the size and location of the tumor, it can manifest as dry cough, paroxysmal cough, cough with wheezing sound, cough with metallic sound, or the nature of the cough changes, and the cough relieving effect is not good.
Hemoptysis accounts for % to % of cases, with persistent or intermittent blood in the sputum, and rarely severe hemoptysis.
Chest tightness or pain accounted for %, persistent dull pain, dull pain, and chest heaviness.
Shortness of breath is common in varying degrees due to diseases such as bronchospasm, obstruction, lung infection, atelectasis or pleural effusion.
Weight loss is obvious in the late stage.
Fever is caused by cancer focus fever or obstructive pneumonia.
Symptoms caused by local expansion of tumors
Chest pain involving the parietal pleura or chest wall.
Dyspnea. Intraluminal tumors cause stenosis and obstruction of the large airways or the carina (bronchial bifurcation) is widely invaded by the tumor or enlarged lymph nodes compress the trachea and large bronchi. Widespread lesions are common in alveolar cancer. Tumors invade the pleura and heart. Capsular formation of pleural effusion, pericardial effusion, tumor invasion of the phrenic nerve can cause dyspnea.
Hoarseness: When a tumor invades the recurrent laryngeal nerve, it can cause hoarseness and whispering.
Contradictory breathing is caused by compression of the phrenic nerve on the same side, elevation of the diaphragm, and slow movement of the diaphragm.
Difficulty in swallowing Lung cancer metastasizes to mediastinal lymph nodes and compresses the esophagus, causing difficulty in eating.
Swelling of the head and face. Tumors compress the superior vena cava, causing swelling of the head and face, which is superior vena cava syndrome. Symptoms such as red and purple skin, dizziness, vertigo, and nasal congestion may occur, which are aggravated when lying down. In addition, swelling of the upper limbs and neck also often occurs.
Ptosis invades the cervical sympathetic ganglion, causing miosis of the ipsilateral pupil, ptosis of the upper eyelid, enophthalmos, and forehead hypohidrosis, which is called a syndrome.
Symptoms caused by distant metastasis of cancer include headache, vomiting, pupil dilation or asymmetry, etc. Bone metastasis can metastasize to the ribs, spine, and pelvis, causing bone destruction. Liver metastasis can cause hepatomegaly, liver pain, jaundice, Ascites, anorexia, and other distant lymph node metastases may cause lymph node enlargement in places such as the supraclavicle and may form a mass in the later stages.
Extrapulmonary manifestations caused by cancer
Hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy and lung cancer patients may develop clubbing of the fingers and toes. Some patients initially present with migratory and deep burning pain in large joints. Squamous cell carcinoma is common.
Gonadotropin-secreting male [banned word] development.
The secretion of adrenocorticotropic hormone-like substances causes progressive muscle weakness, moon face, neck, trunk or general obesity, purple streaks on the skin of the abdomen and legs, limb edema, hypertension, elevated urine sugar and hypoemia. Potassium and other manifestations, that is, syndrome, are more common in small cell lung cancer.
The symptoms of such cases of hypersecretion of antidiuretic hormone are mostly caused by drainage disorders, such as fatigue, confusion, nausea, convulsions, etc. Laboratory results may show obvious hyponatremia, hypoosmolality, and persistent urine Natriuresis, urine osmotic pressure being higher than plasma osmotic pressure, etc. are more common in small cell lung cancer.
Myasthenia occurs in neuromuscular diseases. The symptoms of weakness often appear in proximal muscle groups, especially the pelvic muscle groups and thigh muscle groups. The muscles in the above parts may be weak, tired, or even painful, and may also occur multiple times. Myositis and other manifestations are more common in small cell lung cancer.
Carcinoid syndromes such as facial flushing, asthma, tachycardia and watery diarrhea, which occur due to excessive secretion of serotonin in the body, are more common in small cell lung cancer and adenocarcinoma.
Skin lesions can include dermatomyositis, acanthosis nigricans, scleroderma, etc., and are more common in adenocarcinoma.
Migratory thrombophlebitis can occur in coagulation diseases, often appearing in the upper limbs, often migrating, or fixed in one place.
Due to the limitations or reasons for failure of the above treatment conditions, it is recommended that the patient be given conservative treatment with traditional Chinese medicine during the treatment period.
Medical treatment is the main treatment method for patients in the middle and late stages. Improving the quality of life and prolonging the survival time of these patients are the main goals of treatment. Many studies have found that the extremely small amount of ginsenosides in red ginseng can effectively inhibit the proliferation of lung cancer cells and induce their differentiation and apoptosis. Bringing new hope to lung cancer patients. Ginsenosides in the treatment of lung cancer have the following characteristics: Inhibit the proliferation of lung cancer cells and prolong the survival of patients.
The reason why cancer progresses so quickly is mainly because cancer cells proliferate much faster than normal cells. Ginsenosides can inhibit the proliferation of lung cancer cells, inhibit the growth of cancer cells, and reverse the morphology and subcellular structure of some cancer cells to normal, thereby delaying the progression of the disease, reducing lung cancer metastasis, and prolonging the survival of patients.
It can play an anti-tumor role by improving the body's immunity.
Cancer patients are in a state of low immunity, especially those undergoing chemotherapy (chemotherapy drugs are generally immunosuppressive drugs). When immune function is low, tumors are difficult to control and tend to accelerate recurrence or metastasis. Therefore, improving the body's immunity is particularly important for the treatment of lung cancer. Ginsenosides can not only increase the activity of cells, but also enhance the activity of positive immunomodulatory effects, thereby enhancing the body's immune function and exerting its anti-tumor effect.
Reduce the side effects of chemotherapy and improve patients’ quality of life.
The anti-tumor chemotherapy drugs used in clinical practice all have varying degrees of toxic and side effects. While they kill tumor cells, they also kill cells in normal tissues, especially blood and lymphoid tissue cells that are growing vigorously in the human body. , causing digestive system, hematopoietic system, immune system, nervous system, skin and mucous membrane reactions, cardiac reactions, pulmonary toxic reactions, renal dysfunction and other reactions. Ginsenosides can reduce the toxic side effects of chemotherapy, significantly improve patients' symptoms such as low white blood cells, fatigue, susceptibility to infection, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, hair loss, sexual dysfunction, etc., and improve patients' quality of life.
Ginsenosides have extensive anti-cancer activity, diverse anti-cancer mechanisms, and no toxic side effects. They are being recognized and respected by more and more liver cancer patients. Products containing ginsenosides are currently on the market. I believe it will bring benefits to liver cancer patients. Come new hope