How to relieve the tension of malignant tumor patients?

In today’s highly developed medical science and technology, tumor, especially malignant tumor, is still an important factor threatening human health. People usually think that having cancer is like being sentenced to death and feel that their life is in darkness. In clinical work, we often face many malignant tumor patients who are very nervous and even afraid of their condition. However, malignant tumors are not as people think, and many of them are treatable or even curable. When you learn that you have a tumor, you don’t need to be too nervous, you should try to relax and actively carry out treatment. In this article, we mainly talk about the nervousness and relief methods of malignant tumor patients. Patients with malignant tumor are often nervous about their condition, and the main reasons for analysis are: l. Fear of death; 2. Loss of working ability and insecurity of economic expense; 3. Pain; 4. The physical symptoms; 11. feeling lonely; 12. anxiety about the treatment of tumor, such as surgery, radiotherapy and worry about the complications and side effects brought by the treatment. How to relieve the tension of malignant tumor patients? When you learn that you have a tumor, you should learn to face it correctly, communicate with your doctor more, find the most suitable treatment plan and actively cooperate with your doctor’s treatment. At the same time, you should keep a positive and optimistic attitude, try to make yourself as normal as possible, try to resume normal daily activities, or at least as much as possible, as usual. Maybe you will never be able to do what you used to do, never be able to do what you want to do as you used to, however, maybe you still can. The key is whether you are willing to accept it and face it positively. Malignant tumors are not absolutely unbeatable. You need to have the courage and confidence to fight against the disease. You may feel very lonely and helpless, but don’t forget that you still have the care from your relatives and friends and the guidance and treatment from medical personnel. Let us work together to choose the most effective treatment plan and the best medical technology for you to maximize the life expectancy and improve the quality of life. 2. Adhere to physical exercise Exercise is beneficial to everyone’s health, and it is even more necessary for patients with malignant tumors. You can do appropriate exercise according to your condition. For example, when you are in bed after surgery, you can do simple limb stretching and muscle contraction activities. Get off the floor as early as possible after surgery. After going home, make a good exercise plan, such as how many times a day and for how long at a time, and gradually increase the intensity of the activity according to your physical condition, but avoid overexertion. For example, some simple walking, walking, going up and down stairs, doing housework and other activities every day will help maintain muscle tone and strength and prevent muscle atrophy. Adhering to daily exercise will help your body recover quickly and can prevent complications and improve your prognosis. Good physical condition can also make you better tolerate treatment and enhance the body’s resistance. 3. Maintain good nutrition Good nutrition provides the energy needed for our body to function normally and repair damage. When you have a malignant tumor, food and nutrition are powerful weapons in the fight against the disease. Good nutrition can help you overcome weakness, repair damaged tissues, improve your body’s immunity and give you a sense of well-being. The problems related to diet that malignant tumor patients often encounter are: decreased appetite, digestive malabsorption, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea caused by chemotherapy, and oral mucositis and radioactive enteritis caused by radiotherapy. At this time, you need to contact with the doctor in time, symptomatic treatment, adjustment of diet, can eat high-energy, high-protein liquid food, semi-liquid food, etc. Those who seriously can not eat, can choose parenteral nutrition, that is, intravenous input of high nutrition, such as fat milk, amino acids various vitamins and trace elements of nutrient solution. Good physical and psychological conditions are the prerequisite for fighting with the disease. 4.Actively cooperate with doctor’s treatment For malignant tumor or precancerous lesion, it is necessary to have a correct understanding that different parts of tumor have different degrees of malignancy, and the prognosis of a certain malignant tumor also varies according to the pathological type and clinical or surgical stage. It is important to know that malignant tumors, like other diseases, can be cured in some cases after active treatment, such as trophoblastic tumors. There are also many earlier malignant tumors that can be controlled and survive for a long time after surgery, adjuvant radiotherapy, chemotherapy and hormone and molecular targeting treatments. Only some patients with advanced tumors have unsatisfactory prognosis, but they can prolong their survival and improve their quality of life through active treatment. Therefore, regardless of whether you have precancerous or malignant tumor, early or late stage tumor, you should actively cooperate with doctors for treatment. The discomfort caused by the tumor itself and the side effects caused by the treatment should also be actively dealt with. 60%~90% of patients with advanced tumor will have severe pain. According to WHO’s three-step therapy for cancer pain control, non-opiate, weak opiate and strong opiate are used to control mild pain, moderate pain and severe pain respectively in order. When you feel pain, choose the appropriate medication to control it in order to reduce the adverse effects caused by pain. Tumor treatment inevitably causes some side effects, the common ones are: fatigue and weakness, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, oral pain, constipation, diarrhea, lymphedema and impaired liver and kidney function. When the above-mentioned side effects occur, inform your doctor promptly, and according to your specific situation, analyze the cause and make correct treatment in a timely manner. After discharge from the hospital, you should also learn to self-monitor, regularly review at the hospital, and come to the hospital at any time if there is discomfort. 5. Learn to enjoy yourself Malignant tumor is not as terrible as you think, and there is no need to be discouraged when you have malignant tumor, you can work and live normally as usual. Maybe, you will cherish life and everyone around you more; maybe, you will become open-minded and cheerful, no longer calculating for some unimportant things; maybe, if you change yourself from now on, you will reap a different life. The meaning of life is not only limited to the length of life, but also to live a valuable and exciting life. So why not enjoy life to the fullest? You can choose to do exercise programs and activities that are commensurate with your physical condition, listen to music, go out for a trip, taste good food, watch movies or humorous videos, share your feelings with family and friends, express gratitude, help others, etc. In conclusion, when you find out you have precancerous lesions or malignant tumors, don’t be too nervous and don’t panic, but have enough confidence and courage to overcome the disease. A good state of mind and physical condition, together with active cooperation with doctors and self-enjoyment, may allow you to get cured, or at least improve the prognosis and quality of life.