Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Note lung cancer chemotherapy

1. At present, lung cancer chemotherapy in general can not achieve radical, so in a certain stage of chemotherapy may be with surgery or radiation therapy to strengthen the local or regional control of tumors. At the same time, chemotherapy should be tolerated as far as possible, according to the patients given higher doses. Chemotherapy for lung cancer, the degree of gastrointestinal reaction and bone marrow depression are hard to avoid the number of treatment should be based on patient's response and efficacy of an appropriate increase, as much as possible to achieve complete remission.

2. The interval between treatments, because the existing drug toxicity after stopping often in the continuation of a few weeks, each week intervals during the day since the beginning of chemotherapy every 4 to 6 weeks, but must be made after the disappearance of drug toxicity by The next course of treatment.

3. Chemotherapy in the process of withdrawal or dressing indications.

(1) the treatment of 1 to 2 treatment lesions still progress, or, having stabilized in the rest period deteriorate again.

(2) toxicity up to 3 ~ 4, of a certain threat to patient health.

(3) there are complications, such as fever> 38 degrees, or have bleeding tendencies.

(4) rapid deterioration of patients with normal circumstances, there cachexia.

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