What are the treatment options for centralized lung cancer?

Centralized lung cancer refers to lung cancer that occurs in bronchus, lobar bronchus and lung segmental bronchus. Most of the central lung cancers are squamous carcinoma and small cell carcinoma, and the traditional treatments for central lung cancer include surgery, radiotherapy, traditional Chinese medicine and Gamma Knife treatment, etc. However, since central lung cancer is located near the hilar area, it is difficult to be removed by surgery. However, due to the fact that central lung cancer is located near the lung gate, it is more difficult to be removed surgically, and surgical treatment can only be total pneumonectomy, which is usually difficult for patients to bear. 1. Surgical treatment: It is mostly applied to patients who have not spread and metastasized to other parts of the body in the early stage, but since central lung cancer is located near the hilum, it is difficult to be surgically resected and easy to recur and metastasize after surgery, so the surgical treatment can not achieve the ideal effect. Therefore, once surgical treatment is carried out, it can be combined with traditional Chinese medicine before and after the treatment of centralized lung cancer, which on the one hand can enhance the tolerance of surgery and improve the efficacy of surgery, and also can effectively help the smooth progress of surgical treatment. 2. Radiotherapy: Central type lung cancer is mostly squamous and small cell carcinoma, which is more sensitive to chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy are more sensitive to chemotherapy and radiotherapy, so radiotherapy and chemotherapy are generally used as the conventional methods for central lung cancer treatment. However, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are single local therapies with great limitations and large toxic side effects. Combined with traditional Chinese medicine can effectively reduce the toxic reactions of radiotherapy and chemotherapy and improve the comprehensive therapeutic effect. The treatment options for patients who cannot tolerate lung cancer surgery (i.e. cannot receive surgery due to medical factors) are extracorporeal radiation therapy, stereotactic radiation therapy and stereotactic radiosurgery. Advanced non-small cell lung cancer will be treated with surgery, stereotactic radiosurgery, stereotactic radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or a combination of the above therapies depending on the severity of the disease, the size of the lung tumor, and whether there are metastases. The world’s newest whole-body stereotactic radiosurgery equipment, the Radio Wave Knife, has very advanced technology for treating lung cancer: First, when the patient whistles, the lungs will move with the whistling, and the position of the tumor will also change. The Radio Wave Knife uses image-guided software to track the displacement of the patient’s tumor in real time, and makes continuous corrections. This puts it far ahead of other treatments. With this technology, patients can breathe normally and relax during treatment. Secondly, some radiologic procedures require hard head frames to be doweled to the patient’s head to minimize movement. Instead of using these extreme techniques to immobilize the patient, RadioWave Knife replaces them with sophisticated tracking software for a more comfortable and non-invasive treatment. Finally, the precision of the treatment is unrivaled. Its ability to treat tumors with a high degree of precision is unmatched by other radiation therapy and radiosurgery systems. It can “sculpt” the extent of the tumor, so that it can precisely irradiate only the tumor and avoid damaging the surrounding healthy tissues. Chinese medicine has great advantages in the treatment of centralized lung cancer, which can treat both the symptoms and the root cause, support the positive and dispel the evil, and provide comprehensive treatment. It can improve patients’ life quality and prolong the survival period, and is a method applicable to the whole treatment process. Traditional Chinese medicine plays a very good auxiliary role in the treatment of central lung cancer. No matter surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy combined with traditional Chinese medicine in treating central lung cancer, it can not only effectively inhibit the tumor, but also obviously relieve the symptoms, improve the whole body condition and prolong the survival period. Gamma knife treatment: Gamma knife radiation therapy is one of the important treatment methods. Gamma knife is a kind of therapeutic equipment integrating modern computer technology, stereotactic technology and surgical technology, it will be a beam of gamma rays geometrically gathered, concentrated irradiation in the pre-lighting foci, one-time, lethal destruction of tissues in the target point. Gamma knife as a combination of radiation and surgical concepts of the new technology is gradually recognized. 5. Combination of Chinese and western medicine: Various kinds of highly effective and non-toxic treatment means of Chinese and western medicine, individualized medication, curative medication, multiple medication, maximize multi-targeted killing of cancer cells, enhance the immune function of the organism, improve the cellular repair function of the organism and the DNA repair function, and improve the cellular micro-ecological environment so as to achieve the optimal therapeutic effect, and strive to cure the patients from the root or stabilize the foci to prevent proliferation, reduce pain and complications, as well as to improve the quality of treatment. It is a brand-new, advanced, unique and effective treatment method and treatment concept to stabilize the lesion, avoid proliferation, prevent complications, reduce pain, “live with tumor” and improve the quality of life. 6.Biological cellular immunotherapy API-specific biological immunotherapy mainly relies on the patient’s own immune cells for tumor treatment. The patient’s single nucleated cells in peripheral blood are collected through biotechnology, and cell separation, induction, proliferation, activation, etc. are carried out in a high-level GMP laboratory, so as to obtain the active immune cells, passive immune cells, and other immune cells (LAK cells, CD3AK cells, CD3AK cells, CD3AK cells, CD3AK cells, CD3AK cells) which have a high degree of activity, quantity and tumor-killing ability. LAK cells, CD3AK cells, CIK cells, NK cells, NKT cells, TIL cells, DC cells, macrophages γδT cells, TC cells, T cells, etc.), according to the patient’s condition need to the above immune cells for personalized organic combinations, in multiple times back to the patient’s body, a variety of effective combination of immune cells to promote each other, each other’s influence, and complement each other, against the tumor target cells in a timely and specific way. After the effective combination of multiple immune cells, they can promote each other and complement each other, so as to carry out timely and specific memory, recognition and killing of tumor target cells. 7. Tumor typing integrated treatment is to apply the existing treatment means in a planned and reasonable way according to the patient’s physical condition, pathological type of tumor, invasion range and development trend, so as to maximize the cure rate and improve the quality of survival. It is a new type of program for treating tumors at the present stage, and is the basic principle for the treatment of most tumors.