After the resection of esophageal cancer, the patient needs to choose whether to have postoperative chemotherapy according to his physical condition, as well as to give Chinese herbal medicine treatment and active symptomatic treatment.
Patients with esophageal cancer are often in poor health because they cannot eat for a long time. After surgery, they need to pay attention to strengthening nutrition, such as giving a high quality protein diet and a reasonable combination of diet and nutrition, so that when their body can tolerate chemotherapy drugs, chemotherapy can be given to kill residual tumor cells and prolong their survival time and improve their quality of life.
If a patient cannot tolerate chemotherapy for a short period of time, Chinese herbal medicine can be considered to help improve the body’s immunity and promote recovery. If there is no distant metastasis at the time of surgery for esophageal cancer and the tumor malignancy is not very high, after surgery and postoperative chemotherapy, the patient has a high life rate of 5 to 10 years. On the contrary, if the discovery is late, the lesion is in advanced stage, distant metastasis has occurred, or the malignancy is high, although after surgery and postoperative chemotherapy and corresponding treatment, the effect will be less than ideal, most of them will recur within 2~3 years, or the cancer will metastasize elsewhere and continue to grow, and the body will appear cachexia.