Do you want to lung cancer radiotherapy

In the famous British medical journal "Lancet", there is a cancer research over the past 30 years Review. It is surprising to find that, for some types of lung cancer patients, whether or not the application of radiation therapy is a debatable issue.

For non-small cell lung cancer patients with nine research data show that radiotherapy after surgery, many patients will actually lose more chance of survival, especially those who have not been the proliferation of cancer patients.

Non-small-cell malignancies, including more than 10 kinds of different cell types of lung cancer, accounting for 80 percent of cases. 1 / 5 by surgical treatment, followed by radiotherapy or chemotherapy to impose further.

Cambridge, UK scientists have studied a number of countries in patients with lung cancer in 2128. About half were randomly assigned to receive postoperative radiotherapy, including some that have not yet violated the lymph nodes of patients with lung cancer. After two-year survival rate of patients to receive radiation therapy for 48 percent, but only the survival rate of patients who underwent surgery for 55%, that is not radiotherapy better. One study showed that only those patients with advanced radiotherapy after showing good role. While the other three studies showed that did not include violations of lymph node cancer patients, radiotherapy are brought serious damage.

Therefore, many once regarded as a conventional radiotherapy means doctors, has begun to reconsider their treatment programs. Now, doctors use to deal with postoperative radiotherapy or surgery can not achieve violations to the lungs or lymph nodes outside the lung cancer tissue.

Scientists pointed out that over the past lung excessive doses of postoperative radiotherapy, which is obviously harmful. Treatment will cause excessive similar bronchopneumonia as local acute radiation pneumonitis. In fact, this may lead to cancer patients is one of the causes of death.