What to do if you have cancer?

Modern people say that you can have anything but not a disease, especially when you are told that you are suffering from a malignant tumor, the patient will surely be afraid, distressed, anxious, confused, go to hearsay, go to people, and some even have the tendency to avoid medical treatment. But have we ever stopped, even spend a minute to think, these feelings accompanying the disease, is not a person to draw their own prison, or has been along the feelings of others, their own give up the right to face? From facing the disease, to confronting it, to overcoming it, is it not possible for an ordinary person to go through the rarest of baptisms, to gain more valuable experiences that are hard to come by in a healthy life? It is of course the greatest misfortune in life that we have cancer, but we must first face the reality and adjust our mindset, rather than complaining about the sky, worrying about people and sobbing through the day. An oncologist once claimed that half of the cancer patients died of fear. Although the situation is not that exaggerated, it is true that it is found in clinical practice that about 1/3 of cancer patients die of fright. When some patients learn of their condition, they appear to be emotionally depressed, have no confidence in treatment, mope around all day, and their condition tends to progress very quickly, whereas patients with good treatment results are those who are emotionally stable, more optimistic about life, and full of confidence in treatment. Watson et al. of The Royal Marsde Hospital (The Royal Marsde Hospital) had conducted a study on a group of women suffering from breast cancer, talked with them and asked them to answer the questions in the MAC (Mental Adjustment to Cancer) scale, and then classified their emotional response state into 4 types, 5 and 10 years later, the results were clear: the patients were emotionally stable, optimistic about life, and confident in treatment. After 10 years, the results were clear: the struggling type had the highest survival rate, and the hopeless type did not fare as well, suggesting that the state of mind influences the progression of the disease to a great extent. Some people compare having cancer to meeting a pack of wolves in the middle of nowhere with bare hands, and they want to eat you with their mouths wide open. Are you a sitting duck with a cowering ball, or are you fighting hard to resist? Fighting hard can have a ray of hope for life, there is a chance to defeat it, I hope you do not hesitate to seize the opportunity to defeat it. At the same time, you should also cooperate with your doctor for scientific treatment; strengthen exercise to enhance your physical fitness; and increase nutrition to improve your ability to fight cancer. The following suggestions can help patients and their families to get through the initial confusing period of the disease. 1. Although the therapeutic effect of tumor has made considerable progress in the past 20 years, in general, there are still a lot of difficulties, and it is understandable that patients are afraid of tumor. Therefore, when a clear diagnosis is made, first of all, the family members, the patients should communicate fully with the doctors, choose the appropriate way, environment, timing and content, and respect the patient’s own right to know, so as to facilitate the treatment in the future. Although cancer is not an incurable disease, it is a great enemy that threatens human life. Especially when the cause of the disease has not yet been found out and no effective medicine has been developed, we must rely on our spirit to do a long-term and effective fight against it with tenacity and perseverance. To use their own newborn, to prove the value of life. After the disease, we should not complain about the sky and worry about others, we should be self-improvement, try to go to the society and public places to show our spirit and ability to fight against the disease; we should not care about the fame and fortune, and treat it as a smoke cloud, we can go against the tide, and we can be able to bend and stretch, and it is not a bad thing to be Q. We should be a little bit foolish but we should be dashing, and we can be a little bit easy-going in our life but we should be strong in our fight against the cancer. Most of the cancer patients, especially the early and relatively early cancer patients can get good treatment effect, and some of them can even be cured. 2. After being informed of the tumor diagnosis, first of all, do not panic and prevent from seeking medical treatment in a hurry, let yourself calm down first, think carefully about what to do next, consult experts from various aspects, avoid listening to only one family’s words, and make a decision in a hurry, the key to good or bad tumor treatment depends on the first time treatment, and only if you choose the right first time, you will be able to provide the conditions for the subsequent treatment, and only then you will have a chance to survive in the long term. The main contents of consulting experts include: ① whether the diagnosis is clear or not. ② What are the treatment modalities and what are the first and second choices. ③ What is the efficacy of treatment and what are the chances of long-term survival. ④ What are the risks of the treatment, what are the toxic side effects or complications, and what is the impact on the quality of life in the future. ⑤ Whether there are more advanced and more effective treatment methods at home and abroad. (6) The approximate cost of medical treatment. As a patient and family member, we suggest you to listen to the expert’s suggestions carefully and record the main contents, so that you can make a decision after comparison and find out the best treatment plan. Then you should go to a professional tumor hospital for treatment as soon as possible, and ask professional doctors to make personalized treatment and rehabilitation plan for you. 3.Tumor treatment is a complicated process, due to the fast development of treatment means and more fields involved, it is impossible for any expert to fully understand all the treatment methods, and the best mode of tumor treatment at present is multidisciplinary comprehensive treatment, so it is suggested that you should consult the specialists in oncology, tumor radiotherapy, tumor chemotherapy, biological treatment and Chinese medicine treatment, and then go for treatment in accordance with the modern mode of surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and anti-tumor traditional Chinese medicine. Therefore, it is recommended that you consult specialists in tumor radiotherapy, tumor chemotherapy, biotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine. For early-stage patients with limited lumps, if the patient’s physique is good, we should take immediate decision and focus on surgery and other treatments to “get rid of evil”. After surgery, timely measures should be taken to improve the immunity of the body and eliminate the remaining cancer cells, so as to prevent recurrence and metastasis in the future and improve the clinical cure rate. For patients in the middle stage, the tumor is usually in the progressive stage and has already had local metastasis. At the same time of surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other treatments to “get rid of the evil”, the patients should take traditional Chinese medicines and anti-cancer drugs to improve immunity to “support the positive”, so that “the evil will be eliminated and the positive will grow”, and the treatment effect will be doubled with half the effort. In this way, “elimination of evil and growth of positive” can get twice the result with half the effort. If the patient’s positive energy is disregarded when attacking the evil, it is very likely that the tragedy of “the tumor is killed and the patient is gone” will occur. In tumor treatment, we should set up the correct concept of “people-oriented”, prolong patients’ life and improve patients’ quality of life as the ultimate goal, and insist on “saving people first”, “removing tumor again” and “zero-risk” for patients with urgent, serious and late tumors. For those patients with acute, serious and advanced tumors, we insist on the concept of “saving lives first”, “removing tumors again”, “zero risk”, and improve patients’ symptoms of malignant disease and enhance patients’ ability to resist cancer through the “supportive and supportive therapies” mainly based on traditional Chinese medicines, so as to enable them to survive with tumors firstly, and to take the initiative in treating and surviving. The patients can take the initiative of treatment and survival, and then perform surgery or radiotherapy after they have the conditions of the body, which may lead to a more ideal treatment effect or expect to realize “survival with tumor”. At the same time, qigong is a good way for cancer patients to exercise. Qigong is a good way for cancer patients to exercise. It is mainly based on oxygen absorption, which can help the human body to mobilize the anti-cancer ability and achieve the purpose of curing cancer together with traditional Chinese and western medical treatments. It is generally advocated that qigong should be practiced in the woods with fresh air or by the water, which can increase the therapeutic effect; it can also be used for “group anti-cancer” self-help and mutual help, so that we can exchange harvests of anti-cancer, treatment methods, dietary contents, supervision, encouragement and mutual help, as well as the knowledge and experience of each other. We can supervise and encourage each other, help each other to eliminate the negative factors on the way of fighting cancer, and ensure the vigorous consciousness of fighting cancer. For some patients with advanced tumors, the existing medical science is indeed facing many difficulties, which is the common reality of human beings. We should believe in science, exclude the interference of confusing information, and do not be superstitious about the “fairy”, “god doctor”, or partial prescriptions and secret prescriptions, which can only have occasional curative effects under specific conditions. Under certain conditions, the occasional therapeutic effect, it often carries a greater danger, improper use of prescription will lead to life-threatening. What’s more, we can’t blindly believe in the advertisements posted in the streets and alleys, so as not to be cheated. Avoid patients to endure the torture of the disease at the same time, but also to suffer unnecessary economic losses with the development of medical science, cancer ≠ death has been the consensus of the medical profession. What is scary is the fear and hatred of everyone at this moment that cancer is a terminal disease and incurable, and these scary and misguided fear and hatred come from the general misunderstanding. Due to some people’s insufficient knowledge of cancer, invariably some curable cancers lose the chance of treatment. In fact, many cancers are completely curable. Some patients in the middle and advanced stages can survive for many years with high quality after treatment. Nowadays, there are countless examples proving that cancer is not a totally invincible disease but a curable one. There are a large number of cancer survivors all over the country who are living happily and gracefully. As a matter of fact, the earlier cancer is detected, the higher the chance of successful treatment. Many cancer deaths are caused by the failure of early detection and treatment. Cancer can be cured as long as proper treatment is carried out with a positive mindset. The right choice is to face the disease squarely, remain calm, challenge cancer and try to overcome it. On the road of life, there are inevitably ditches and hurdles, and for cancer patients, overcoming cancer will be an arduous journey, but as long as they can fully rely on contemporary medical science and technology, build up confidence in overcoming cancer, and mobilize their own ability to fight the disease, they will bring themselves the hope of life. At present, many medical workers all over the world are making continuous efforts to conquer cancer, and from time to time there are new achievements, and mankind is getting closer and closer to the goal of completely curing cancer.