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Cancer disease, even in developed countries, is the cause of high mortality of patients. The fact is that cancer is not easy to detect and in the vast majority of cases it is diagnosed at the stage when metastases that have penetrated other organs leave little chance of survival.
But still, doctors use modern diagnostic tools in various combinations, they can detect cancer cells at an early stage of the disease and take measures to destroy them:
By a surgical operation;
radiotherapy;
Chemotherapy.
Treating lung cancer with chemotherapy
To date, this type of treatment is recognized as the most effective for the destruction of tumor cells. It consists in taking medications orally or intravenously into the body.
If the disease is detected late, at the 4th stage, when metastases have already settled in other organs, then even chemotherapy is powerless. However, this method of treatment can prolong the life of the patient.
Side effects of chemotherapy and lung cancer therapy
As already mentioned, chemotherapy gives good results in early diagnosis of the disease. But even with a favorable outcome, it does not pass without a trace, but has a certain negative effect on the body from which they suffer:
Bone marrow;
Digestive organs;
blood cells;
Hair fall out.
The negative effect of chemicals is manifested after the first course of treatment. Patients experience the following inconveniences:
causeless fatigue;
Nausea and vomiting;
diarrhea
Discomfort in the mouth.
The next course of chemotherapy for lung cancer causes depression, there are signs of a decrease in hematopoiesis – hemoglobin and leukocytes decrease. Secondary infections may occur. The combination of these factors is far from the best way reflected in the quality of treatment.
Antiemetics are used to reduce side effects such as nausea. To prevent hair loss, they are cooled before the procedure.
Side effects of chemotherapy in lung cancer
Chemotherapy is the main type of cancer treatment, but, despite the high efficiency of the method, its consequences are difficult to tolerate by the body. This is explained by the fact that the modern pharmaceutical industry has not yet learned how to create drugs that can selectively act on certain groups of cells, in this case, only cancer cells.