Generally speaking, the prognosis of lung cancer is not too good in general. Therefore, how long lung cancer patients can live depends on whether they can be diagnosed as early as possible and receive timely and reasonable treatment. How long a person can live with lung cancer depends on his/her physical condition and the effect of treatment. Patients should not be overly afraid of cancer, in fact, there are many cancer patients who have created miracles.

How long lung cancer patients can live is mainly related to the following 4 factors.

I. Classification and staging of lung cancer

Survival rate of lung cancer is closely related to the typing and staging of lung cancer. With different typing, the malignancy and therapeutic effect of lung cancer are different. At present, lung cancer is mainly divided into two categories: non-small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer. In general, when small cell lung cancer is diagnosed, about one-third of them are limited lesions, while the remaining two-thirds are already widespread lesions.

The two-year survival rate for patients with limited lesions treated with chemotherapy is about 40 percent. For small-cell lung cancer patients with widespread lesions, chemotherapy may result in a survival rate of only about 10 months to a year for most of them.

Survival for non-small cell lung cancer patients is slightly better. Currently non-small cell lung cancer can be categorized as stage I to stage IV.

1. Stage I is the earliest stage of non-small cell lung cancer, which can be divided into stage IA and stage IB. After standardized surgical treatment, the five-year survival rate of stage IA non-small cell lung cancer patients can be more than 80%, achieving clinical cure. The five-year survival rate of stage IB non-small cell lung cancer patients is also about 60 percent.

2. The five-year survival rate of stage II non-small cell lung cancer can reach 40 to 50 percent after surgical treatment.

3. Although it is difficult to operate for stage III non-small cell lung cancer patients, some of them can still be operated. The five-year survival of these patients can also reach about thirty percent.

4. Stage IV non-small cell lung cancer patients are difficult to be operated and can only be treated with palliative care, and the five-year survival rate is only about two percent.

2. Whether the treatment is regular and systematic

If the cancer is detected in time and treated in a regular and systematic way, even advanced lung cancer patients can reduce the pain and prolong the survival period.

Third, individual's physical condition

It is important to know that everyone's physical condition is different, that is, patients found at the same time and in the same stage are treated with the same program, but their effects are not the same, and their survival time is long or short. This is also a factor that makes it impossible to determine the exact survival time.

Four, other related factors

These factors are mainly nutritional status, mental status, adjustment of the mentality and so on. These issues, likewise, affect the effectiveness of treatment, as well as the quality of life, and consequently the survival time.

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Dietary precautions for patients with advanced lung cancer

1. Eat more cough-relieving food

Patients with advanced stage of lung cancer often have coughing and coughing up blood, so they should choose cough-relieving and blood-relieving foods, such as lotus root, pear, lily, yam, white fungus, soybean products and so on.

2. Eat more protein-containing food

Patients with advanced lung cancer are prone to swallowing difficulty, so they should try to choose some liquid food, and the diet should be light, thin and soft and easy to be digested, and they should eat more food rich in protein and carbohydrates, so as to help the body to replenish enough nutrients.

3. Eat more immunity-enhancing foods

Patients with advanced lung cancer have poor immunity, so they should eat more immunity-enhancing and anti-cancer foods, such as enoki mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, mushrooms, lentils, kiwi, figs, sardines, honey, apples, milk, yam and so on.

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