Myth 1: Wasting precious time When diagnosed with cancer, anxiety and fear fill the brain, causing many patients and family members to lose their way. In the outpatient clinics, we can see many patients cruising to major hospitals to seek for 100% safe and effective treatment methods that do not exist; some patients keep visiting famous experts to hear a benign diagnosis from doctors, which is not self-deceiving; worse still, they keep asking for re-testing and questioning the scientific diagnosis already obtained; unbeknownst to them, they have wasted one of the most precious things – time. Cancer treatment is a process of racing against time. Myth 2: Diagnosis is important, but not the purpose, treatment is fundamental The diagnosis of cancer is crucial, and the gold standard worldwide is only histopathological diagnosis, other kinds of tests can only be used as reference and have no meaning to confirm the diagnosis. Clinically, many patients only have imaging diagnosis such as CT, MRI, ultrasound, PET, etc., but ignore the most important pathological diagnosis. The purpose of diagnosis is treatment, so treatment is fundamental. When patients do not have the conditions or time to diagnose, or when the patient’s condition is very clear, you can skip the diagnosis and treat directly at this time, which can save time and obtain the maximum efficacy. Myth 3: Pursuing surgery too much and going in the wrong direction Although time is important and although surgery is the best treatment for most cancers, there are certain scientific procedures for cancer diagnosis and treatment, which cannot be abbreviated in most cases. Operating without surgical conditions or without preoperative examination, operating without preoperative preparation, or pursuing hospitalization today and surgery tomorrow will often harm the benefits of patients and even go astray, even at the cost of life. Lack of scientific understanding of cancer will lead to the phenomenon of seeking medical help indiscriminately, especially when the disease is relapsed and metastasized or when the treatment is frustrated, a piece of information that is not known to be true or false will be regarded by patients and their families as a life-saving straw and they will rush to it. A thought, a waste of money, a waste of opportunity, a waste of life. Myth 5: Complicating the problem, resulting in helplessness Because of the complexity of cancer, the great difference of individuals, the multiplicity of treatment and efficacy, and many other interfering factors, it is difficult to predict the exact efficacy for a specific patient. Both sides are at their wits’ end. Time passes in uncertainty without trying.