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Acupuncture and Massage for Lung Cancer

Hello, acupuncture and massage are useless in treating lung cancer. Those are physical therapies.

It is suggested that lung cancer should be treated by stages first, and the selection of treatment methods according to the staging results of lung cancer has been recognized by the tumor community at home and abroad. Surgery is the first choice for early patients (stage IA, IB, IIA, IIB). If the patient cannot receive surgery or refuses surgery for medical reasons, he can choose radical radiotherapy.

For patients with advanced stage (Ⅳ), chemotherapy is the main treatment, while radiotherapy is palliative and not suitable for surgery.

Patients with advanced stage (stage IIIA and IIIB) are complicated. Some patients with stage IIIA can still be operated, but patients with stage IIIB are not suitable for operation. At present, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are used to cure diseases, or chemotherapy and radiotherapy are used first, and then the condition is evaluated. Whether surgery is possible. This kind of patients is the most common group in outpatient service, and early patients are often found through physical examination or routine hospitalization for other diseases. Small cell lung cancer is usually divided into two stages, that is, localized lesions or extensive lesions, which was proposed by the Veterans Management Hospital. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are the main methods. In recent years, surgery has also been involved in the treatment of small cell lung cancer. TNM staging method was used for non-small cell lung cancer. According to the different stages of the disease, the curative effect is also obviously different. The five-year survival rate of patients with non-small cell lung cancer is 60% ~ 80%, 40% ~ 60% for patients with stage II, 10% ~ 30% for patients with stage III and less than 1% for patients with stage IV. As the stage of illness becomes later and later, the proportion of survival becomes smaller and smaller. The two-year survival rate of limited stage small cell lung cancer is over 20%, while the patients with extensive stage lesions are less than 10%. These materials should not only be known to doctors, but also to family members and even patients. The most important thing is … more specific answers can be considered/topic/50294.html.