How is the effect of interventional treatment for lung cancer

How effective is interventional treatment for lung cancer?

Lung cancer is a malignant tumor originating from the bronchial mucosa or glands of the lungs. Like other malignant tumors, it advocates early detection and early treatment. If the disease develops to the late stage, treatment will be very difficult. Surgery is the first choice and main method for the treatment of lung cancer, but surgical treatment has certain indications. For patients who are not suitable for surgery, interventional treatment is clinically recommended.

How effective is interventional treatment for lung cancer?

Lung cancer is a malignant tumor of the respiratory system. Surgery is the first choice and main method of treatment, including thoracotomy and assisted thoracoscopic surgery. It is suitable for all patients with early, middle and a few middle and late stage non-small cell lung cancer. At present, surgical treatment is the best treatment method to improve the long-term survival rate of patients, but not every patient's condition is suitable for surgical treatment. For these patients, other treatment methods need to be selected.

Interventional therapy is widely used in the treatment of tumor diseases and can also be used in the treatment of lung cancer. There are many interventional treatment methods for lung cancer, and the most commonly used one is tracheal artery infusion chemotherapy, which means using puncture needles, catheters, wires and other equipment under the guidance of imaging equipment to guide the treatment equipment to the lesion site for drug infusion, thereby achieving the treatment effect.

This therapy is suitable for patients with advanced disease who cannot undergo surgery or who have failed systemic chemotherapy. Interventional treatment of lung cancer also includes radiofrequency or microwave thermal ablation and argon-helium cold ablation, which are suitable for early lung cancer, such as patients with type I lung cancer, or tumor lesions smaller than 3 cm, and can achieve the effect of surgical resection.

Generally speaking, interventional therapy has a certain therapeutic value in the treatment of lung cancer. It can control lesions and improve the condition to a certain extent. Especially for patients who cannot tolerate surgery or have advanced lung cancer, interventional therapy can greatly reduce the burden on the patient's body, ensure the efficacy, and effectively reduce the patient's pain. However, interventional therapy is not a "universal treatment" and sometimes needs to be combined with other treatments such as local cryotherapy, radiotherapy, systemic chemotherapy, targeted therapy, etc. to achieve better therapeutic effects.