The best choice for senior lung cancer patients is to go to a general hospital because most of them have hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes mellitus and respiratory system and other chronic diseases that require medical consultation and treatment. Hu Mu, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University
The level of treatment and clinical experience of specialists in cardiac center, neurology, endocrinology and respiratory medicine to save hypertension, coronary heart disease and diabetes mellitus owned by general hospitals have advantages over oncology specialty hospitals, especially for senior lung cancer patients over 70 years old.
I used to work in Tong County Tuberculosis Hospital for 20 years, and I know it well. We often had to ask specialists from Chaoyang Hospital to consult on problems in the heart center, neurology, endocrinology and respiratory medicine. Since it is a specialized chest hospital, even the treatment of common diseases in general surgery requires consultation with specialists from outside hospitals. There are many cases of emergency consultations.
In the 30 years after 2011, China’s population aging will be accelerated, and the proportion of people aged 60 and above will increase by 16.55% annually, and the proportion of people aged 60 and above will reach about 28% in 2040. In these 30 years, China will start to enter into an aging society comprehensively. By 2050, the proportion of people aged 60 and above will exceed 30%, and society will enter a stage of deep aging. In the 30 years after 2011, China’s population aging will show accelerated development, and by 2030, the proportion of people aged 65 and above will exceed that of Japan, becoming the country with the highest degree of population aging in the world. As the population aging process intensifies, the number of senior lung cancer patients is increasing!
Xuanwu Hospital, the lung cancer treatment center of Capital Medical University, is the center of geriatric disease prevention and treatment in Beijing, with geriatric disease research laboratories in each clinical specialty and many nationally renowned experts in the treatment of hypertension, cerebrovascular disease, coronary heart disease and diabetes. This year, we have opened a special outpatient clinic and ward for brain metastases from lung cancer together with the Department of Neurosurgery, and cooperated with the Department of Orthopedic Surgery to treat bone metastases from lung cancer.