Quality of life and management project for patients with advanced lung cancer

Compared with best supportive care,chemotherapy can prolong survival a nd improve quality of life,and symptoms associated with society activities and disease.Chemotherapy can improve quality of life of patients with effective treatme nt and stable treatment.Treatment benefit was often underestimated using clin ical relief rate,so which should not chosen as index for evaluating effec t of palliative treatment.So for pat ients with poor status ,and objective of re lieving symptoms,short term,low-d ose chemotherapy should be suggeste d due to its characteristic of low cost,short inhospitalization time,and f avorable improvement of quality of l ife.For patients with good conditio n in limited advanced stage,radical treatment is objective,and hence single chemotherapy of standard dose o r chemotherapy combining radiotherapy should be suggested.