Are radiotherapy suitable for elderly patients with mid-stage esophageal squamous cell carcinoma?

Malignant tumors consume the body's nutrition for a long time, resulting in low resistance. Patients are relatively old and are not suitable for chemotherapy. They can be treated conservatively with traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine achieves the purpose of anti-cancer treatment through overall regulation. It can fight cancer without toxic side effects, can quickly improve clinical symptoms, improve and protect the body's immune function, can overall inhibit and directly kill cancer cells, and significantly inhibit the metastasis and spread of cancer cells.

What is esophageal squamous cell carcinoma? Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma refers to malignant cancer formed by abnormal proliferation of esophageal squamous epithelium or glandular epithelium. Its development generally goes through stages such as epithelial atypical hyperplasia, carcinoma in situ, and invasive cancer. Atypical hyperplasia of esophageal squamous epithelium is an important precancerous lesion of esophageal cancer. It usually takes several years or even more than ten years from atypical hyperplasia to cancer. Because of this, some esophageal cancers can be detected early and can be completely cured. Patients with difficulty swallowing or foreign body sensation should undergo gastroscopy as soon as possible to detect early esophageal cancer or precancerous lesions.

Like other malignant tumors, esophageal cancer has a genetic background, involving a complex process of multi-factor, multi-stage, multi-gene mutation accumulation and interaction, and involves changes in many oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes and proteins at the molecular level. However, long-term bad living or eating habits may be the culprit of esophageal cancer.