Life expectancy: How long can patients with advanced cervical cancer live?

  Generally speaking, most of the advanced cervical cancer has metastasized and cannot be surgically removed. Clinically, the treatment for advanced cervical cancer mainly relies on drug therapy, including chemotherapy and Chinese medicine, and radiation therapy may also be taken as appropriate.  Among various chemotherapeutic drugs, cisplatin is the most widely used and effective drug for the treatment of advanced cervical cancer, which has the dual role of chemotherapy drug and radiation sensitizer, but it is easy to cause nephrotoxicity and neurotoxicity, so it needs to be combined with traditional Chinese medicine to reduce its toxic reaction and enhance the therapeutic effect.  How long can patients with advanced cervical cancer live? Many young women in their 20s have just entered the “threshold” of their life and are dealing with “cervical cancer”. How did they get cervical cancer? And it is still at an advanced stage, and they feel that there is no hope for them. After running around in large and small hospitals, they all said the same thing: “If you have this disease, do what you can now, just don’t spend your money in this bottomless pit, there is no point…”. .”.  Consultant Qiao warmly suggests: in the advanced stage of cervical cancer, metastasis is found very quickly after examination, and conservative treatment will not last more than three months; if surgery is performed, it must go deep into the muscles of the pelvic wall of the patient’s uterus; otherwise, even if surgery is performed, it may not be clean and it is likely to recur.  Radiation therapy for advanced cervical cancer varies depending on the patient’s specific situation, and mostly uses a combination of internal and external radiation. As the duration of radiotherapy increases, the damage of radiation to human body also increases gradually, therefore, the duration of radiotherapy and radiation intensity should be based on tumor remission, symptom relief and treatment-related toxicity.  In addition, in view of the toxic side effects of radiotherapy on human body, Chinese medicine should be combined with radiotherapy in the treatment of advanced cervical cancer to reduce the toxicity of radiotherapy and symptoms on one hand, and to improve the immunity and resistance of patients and improve the quality of life on the other hand. For patients with advanced cervical cancer who have extensive metastasis and weak body function and can hardly tolerate chemotherapy, conservative treatment with Chinese medicine can be used. Although the short-term effect is not as obvious as chemotherapy, the long-term effect is good, and it is effective in improving the quality of survival and prolonging the survival period.