What are the western medicines for teratoma

What are the western medicines for teratoma? Once teratoma is diagnosed, there is basically no effective drug treatment, so you can try some Chinese patent medicines that disperse stagnation and eliminate blood stasis, but there is no guarantee that it will be effective. Early surgical resection must be strived for to avoid the malignant transformation of benign teratoma due to delayed surgery, and to prevent tumor infection, rupture, bleeding and complications.

The key point of teratoma surgery is to completely remove the tumor. For ovarian and testicular tumors, one ovary or testicle should be removed. For sacrococcygeal teratoma, it is important to remove the coccyx as well to avoid residual pluripotent cells and tumor recurrence. The treatment principle of malignant teratoma is combined adjuvant therapy. After surgical resection, conventional chemotherapy is performed for 1.5 to 2 years. Cisplatin, vinblastine or vincristine, and bleomycin are commonly used.

In recent years, it is recommended to use chemotherapy drugs such as cisplatin, doxorubicin, and ifosfamide for combined chemotherapy. Radiotherapy is only used for cases of malignant teratoma with clear microscopic or macroscopic residual tumors. The radiotherapy dose is preferably 25 Gy for microscopic residual tumors and 35 Gy for macroscopic residual tumors. For patients with complete surgical resection, chemotherapy is recommended as the main treatment in recent years, and radiotherapy is used with caution to avoid delayed damage to reproductive organs and bone development during radiotherapy.