What to do if EGFR mutation occurs in patients with advanced lung cancer

Patients with advanced lung cancer who develop EGFR mutations generally need to control the progression of the disease through lifestyle care, targeted therapy, surgical treatment, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, etc.

1. Life care: Patients with advanced lung cancer need to adjust their mentality and avoid being in a state of mental stress for a long time. They should also pay attention to balanced nutrition and perform appropriate physical exercise based on their own conditions. Otherwise, it may stimulate endocrine instability, reduce the body's immunity, and affect the treatment effect.

2. Targeted therapy: If patients with advanced lung cancer have EGFR mutations, they can use targeted drugs targeting this gene mutation site for treatment as prescribed by the doctor. Commonly used drugs include erlotinib hydrochloride tablets, gefitinib tablets, etc.

3. Surgical treatment: If the patient's physical condition can support surgery at this time, you can follow the doctor's instructions to use unilateral pneumonectomy, hilar mediastinal lymph node dissection and other surgical methods to remove the lesions and inhibit the progression of the disease.

4. Radiotherapy: Such patients can also use high-energy radiation beams according to doctor's orders to irradiate the lesion site, which can inhibit the proliferation and differentiation of cancer cells.

5. Chemotherapy: Patients can follow the doctor's advice and use chemotherapeutic drugs such as irinotecan hydrochloride injection and cisplatin injection for treatment, which can also kill cancer cells and thus appropriately increase the patient's survival time.

Patients with advanced lung cancer usually need to undergo regular checkups under the doctor's guidance, so that doctors can observe the development of cancer cells and carry out targeted treatment. During the period of disease control, family members need to pay more attention to the patient's condition and comfort the patient to get rid of negative emotions.