Different Treatment Options For Lung Cancer

Lung cancer is one of the commonest cancers and is also the leading contributor to cancer-related mortality, resulting in 1.40 million cancer deaths per year globally. It accounts for 15 per cent of all new cancer cases and 20 per cent of all cancer-related deaths worldwide. In India, lung cancer constitutes 10 per cent of all cancer related deaths in both sexes and 7 per cent of all new cancer cases. 

What are the treatment options for lung cancer?

Guru Hospital provides different treatment options for lung cancer. It includes surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, cryotherapy, and photodynamic therapy.

 

Surgery:

Surgical treatment for Lung cancer is an option for patients depending on the type, stage and location of their cancer as well as other medical conditions. The surgery for lung cancer will take away the tumour together with some nearby lung tissues. When the cancer is localized and unlikely to have spread, then removing the tumour with lung cancer surgery is considered the best option. This includes carcinoid tumours and early stage non-small cell lung cancers. 

 

Photodynamic therapy:

Photodynamic therapy (also called PDT or light activating treatment) is a bronchoscopy procedure and uses a photosensitizer and laser irradiation to produce reactive oxygen in cells to destroy cancer cells and treat symptomatic tissues. Photodynamic therapy is a good option for treating bronchoscopically visible lung cancers that haven't spread beyond the lungs. As an endobronchial therapy, Photodynamic therapy is used to treat roentgenographically occult, endobronchial, or synchronous primary carcinomas.

 

Cryotherapy:

Also called Cryosurgery. This is a technique, that kills cancer cells by freezing them. In this technique extreme cold is produced by liquid nitrogen (or argon gas).  Hollow steel probes (Cryoprobes) are placed inside the region affected by cancer. Through the probes, liquid nitrogen is then circulated which freezes the cancer cells, creating a ball of ice crystals around the probe. Finally, heated nitrogen is circulated through the probes once adequate ice crystals are formed. After the procedure, the frozen tissue thaws, dissolves and either it forms a scab (for external tumours) or it is naturally absorbed by the body (for internal tumours). Cryosurgery is minimally invasive so pain, bleeding, and other complications of surgery are minimized. Cryosurgery is also less expensive than other treatments and requires a shorter hospital stay and shorter recovery time.  

 

Radiation therapy or radiotherapy:

Radiotherapy treatment delivers high-energy x-rays that can annihilate rapidly dividing cancer cells. In addition to destroying the tumour cells, radiotherapy can help to relieve some of the symptoms the tumour causes such as shortness of breath. Radiotherapy is used alone or combined with chemotherapy depending on the condition of patients. 

 

Chemotherapy:

This involves usage of cytotoxic (anti-cancer) drugs that are toxic to cancer cells. This is used to slow or stop the growth of rapidly dividing cancer cells in the body. It is considered as primary treatment option to destroy or shrink the tumor before starting another treatment.

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Lung Cancer Types and Treatment

What is Lung Cancer?

Lung cancer is the major cause of the cancer deaths in the world. The major risk factor for developing lung cancer is cigarette smoking. Passive smoking (passive exposure to smoke) is also causes lung cancer. 

Types of Lung Cancer

Lung cancer can occur in two types

• Small cell lung cancer (SCLC)
• Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). 

What are the treatments method used in lung cancer?

Treatment for lung cancer includes:

• Surgery
• Chemotherapy
• Radiation therapy
• Targeted drug therapy
• Immunotherapy

What Treatment methods non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) includes?

The treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is different for each stage, it is depends on the patient health conditions. Guru Multispecialty Hospital, Madurai provides excellent treatment facilities for lung cancer.

Stage 1 NSCLC includes surgery to eliminate effected portion of the lung. Sometimes chemotherapy is also recommended. 

Stage 2 NSCLC includes elimination of full lung portion. Chemotherapy is also recommended in some cases.

Stage 3 NSCLC includes the combination of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy.

Stage 4 NSCLC is hard to cure and includes surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy.

What types of surgeries is recommended in NSCLC?

NSCLC treatment may include following surgery types

• Lobectomy
• Segmentectomy
• A wedge resection 
• Pneumonectomy

What is radiation therapy?

Radiation therapy helps in destroying cancer cells by using high beam x-rays or other particles. Radiation oncologist is trained to give radiation therapy to cure cancer patients.

What is chemotherapy?

Chemotherapy uses drugs to eliminate cancer cells by blocking their ability to grow and divide. Chemotherapy is consisting of several sessions which are based of the cancer stage. Some drugs that are used in chemotherapy are carboplatin, docetaxel, paclitaxel, and vinorelbine. 

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Treat Lung Cancer and Save Life

Lung cancer is one of the most common types of cancer which leads cancer deaths in the men and women all over the world.

Causes of Lung Cancer

The major cause of lung cancer is cigarette smoking. Daily cigarettes smokers are at the greater risk of having lung cancer. Asbestos exposure, radiation, and high level of pollution may also increase the risk of lung cancer.

How Lung Cancer is Diagnosed?

Lung cancer is not usually diagnosed at an early stage as its early symptoms are cold and cough which is quite common in most people. Mostly, people misdiagnosed the symptoms and notice only the advanced stage of lung cancer. By that time, tumors in the lungs grow large and not able to treat or remove.

Symptoms of Lung Cancer

The common symptoms of lung cancer are:

• Persistent chest pain
• Constant and worse cough
• Blood in  cough
• Breathing shortness, hoarseness, and wheezing
• Swelling on the face and neck area
• Repeated suffering with bronchitis or pneumonia
• Weight loss or loss of appetite
• Fatigue

Lung Cancer Treatment

The treatment of lung cancer depends on the stage, type and its level of advancement.

Treatment of lung cancer include:

• Surgery
• Chemotherapy
• Radiation therapy
• Targeted therapy

In the targeted therapy, some specific substances are used to attack and destroy cancer cells without affecting normal cells. There are many factors that also increase the chances of lung cancer.

They are:

• Smoking
• Contact with secondhand smoke
• Contact with radon gas
• Contact with asbestos and other carcinogens
• Family history

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Lung Cancer Treatment In India 

The lungs are a pair of cone – shaped breathing inside the chest. Each lungs has sections called lobes. The lungs bring oxygen into the body when breathing in and send carbon dioxide out of he body when breathing out. Lung cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells that start off in one or both lungs , usually in the cells that line the air passages.

The two main types of lung cancer are : -
Non – small cell lung cancer ( NSCLC )

Small cell lung cancer ( SCLC )

Non-small cell lung cancer is the most common type of lung cancer. If the cancer is made up of both types it is called mixed small cell / large cell cancer. In our daily life more people die of lung cancer than the other cancers. The lung cancer is mainly comes from the habit of smoking. Smoking is very injurious to health.

                                                                                                 Risk Factors

                                                                                                      Cigarette smoking

                High levels of air pollution

               Family history of lung cancer

               High levels of arsenic in drinking water

               Exposure to cancer – causing chemicals
     
               Radon gas
     
                                                                                                     Radiation therapy to the lungs

Starting Stage Symptoms

• Chest Pain

• Coughing up blood

• Fatigue

• Weight loss

• Loss of appetite

• Shortness of breath

• Wheezing 

these are the starting symptoms and these symptoms can also be due to other , If you have any one of these symptoms you have to undergo proper diagnosis. So it is very important to aware about of these symptoms. In early lung cancer may not show symptoms.The symptoms depend on the type of cancer you have.

Last Stage Symptoms

• Bone pain

• Eyelid Drooping

• Facial paralysis

• changing voice

• Join pain

• Nail Problems 

• Shoulder pain

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