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Adrenal Cancer Treatment

Adrenal cancer is a rare malignant tumor, most commonly occurring between the ages of 40 and 60. Due to inconspicuous early symptoms, many patients are already in advanced stages at diagnosis. Missing the treatment window often leads to rapid disease progression and reduced survival rates, making early comprehensive treatment crucial.

Emerging Treatment Methods

Immune Reconstruction Cell Therapy

Immune reconstruction cell therapy activates the patient’s immune system to effectively recognize and attack tumor cells, becoming a new emerging method in adrenal cancer treatment. Its advantages include:

① Activating immune cells and enhancing anti-tumor ability;

② Regulating the immune microenvironment to inhibit tumor progression;

③ Supporting traditional treatments and reducing recurrence risk.

In actual treatment, tumor patients undergoing surgery, radiotherapy, or chemotherapy often face immune dysfunction, increased infection risk, and slow recovery. To help patients better sustain the treatment process, improve tolerance, and enhance survival quality, it is necessary to scientifically design phased immune reconstruction plans tailored to different treatment cycles.

● Short-term plan: Rapidly enhance immunity through immune cell reinfusion, boosting the effectiveness of anti-tumor treatment.

● Mid-term plan: Reduce side effects of traditional treatments, promote physical recovery, and complete standardized treatment courses.

● Long-term plan: Enhance overall immunity through immune cell reconstruction, gut immune reconstruction, elemental immune reconstruction, and immune nutrition reconstruction, thereby improving quality of life and prolonging survival.

Conventional Treatment Methods

1. Surgical Treatment

Surgical resection is the preferred treatment for adrenal cancer, particularly suitable for early-stage tumors. Complete tumor removal can significantly improve survival outcomes. For locally advanced cases, surgery remains an important method of cytoreductive treatment.

2. Radiotherapy

Radiotherapy is often used for unresectable cases or as postoperative adjuvant treatment. Precision radiotherapy helps control local tumor progression, relieve symptoms, and extend survival.

3. Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is mainly used for metastatic or progressive adrenal cancer. Common drugs include etoposide and cisplatin. Chemotherapy can reduce tumor burden and improve efficacy when combined with other treatments.

4. Minimally Invasive Treatment

Minimally invasive surgery, such as laparoscopic adrenalectomy, is being increasingly promoted due to its minimal trauma and faster recovery. In addition, interventional treatments such as percutaneous tumor ablation provide more options for patients.

5. Targeted Therapy

Based on the molecular characteristics of adrenal cancer, some targeted drugs have shown potential in clinical trials and may become important supplementary therapies in the future.

6. Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization

This is used for advanced unresectable adrenal cortical carcinoma with liver metastasis. By puncturing the femoral artery and super-selecting the hepatic metastatic tumor’s feeding artery, chemotherapeutic drugs mixed with embolic agents are injected, blocking blood flow and locally releasing high concentrations of drugs to suppress tumor growth.

7. Radiofrequency Ablation / Microwave Ablation

For unresectable solitary metastases or local recurrent lesions, percutaneous insertion of an ablation needle into the tumor center destroys cancer cells with high temperatures. This method can relieve pain, control lesion progression, and is often used as palliative treatment or as a supplement to systemic therapy in advanced stages.

Conclusion

The treatment of adrenal cancer requires multidisciplinary collaboration, combining surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and immune reconstruction cell therapy to achieve the best results. Experts at United Life International Medical Center emphasize that early diagnosis and scientific treatment are key to improving patient survival and quality of life.