If you are unfortunate enough to have a tumor, the recurrence rate and how long you can live after treatment are the top concerns of patients and their families. In the outpatient clinic or ward, we always encounter the following questions: Doctor, what is the prognosis of this disease? When will the disease recur? What is the recurrence rate? How many more years can I live? The questions will come to you head on and head off. Ren Junkai, Department of Urology, Henan Cancer Hospital
Honestly, I always answer some questions that I don’t know, only one person knows the answer that is time. Although I am a medical doctor specializing in oncology, although you are eager to get an affirmative answer.
In fact, if you think about it, you can already see some of the names from the concept of recurrence rate: what is recurrence rate? It is just a statistical figure of a large number of cases in a few time periods artificially set by medical science for statistical convenience and communication. The recurrence rate is calculated from the statistics of millions of patients in the past time period (note that it is the past time), what percentage of these millions of people do you account for? It’s just a drop in the ocean. So it’s meaningless to obsess about the recurrence rate for the individual: 99% or 1%, are you in the 99% or in the 1%? Do you know in which time period you relapsed? I don’t know, it’s just a numbers game. Regardless of the time frame, a relapse is 100%, no relapse is 0%, the day your life ends is the time you can live, that is to say, all and nothing! This is how I usually answer. Good words are not good facts are so absolute, although I do not want to say so! It’s like the weather forecast that it might rain on a certain day in a certain year – can you know now that it’s really going to rain on a certain day in a certain year? You must be a god if you really know – ordinary people will only know when they get to that day. The weather forecast is only a probable event, in other words, it will not necessarily happen at that time – this is known to all people on earth. By the same token, when a tumor will recur and how long it will live after surgery is a matter of the future, can you say now? Does it have to be a recurrence? I am not a god, so I have to say honestly: I don’t know.
One year after treatment, no recurrence – applause, three years later, still alive – cheers! Five years, eight years, ten years, fifteen years …… a little apprehensive – when will relapse ah? How long can I live?
What, you can’t wait? Looking forward to a relapse? You don’t want to live anymore? You’re sick! What? You don’t know! Hey, I don’t know either. What we say does not count, but only when the relapse when the count, relapse and what can be done? Continue treatment. You can live as long as you want, and you can live a good life. Don’t look for things to dwell on like when the earth will explode in the future such a profound problem. The earth may explode one day, not today, not tomorrow, not the day after tomorrow I do not know which day. This belongs to the future unknown things, let the matter let time and the future to discuss it – this does not belong to me, I worry about this idle worry also useless. The day to day thinking about the eight poles of the leisurely things will only spoil the good mood! Don’t worry about things that may appear but not necessarily yet – note that it is possible and not certain; the law of nature: sooner or later, everything will have a day to decide to die from birth, so let time be the master of everything. We should try our best to live every day now instead of worrying and living in fear of events that may happen but not necessarily happen – if the tumor does not come back, wouldn’t it be a waste of fear? Besides, there is no saying that tumor must be recurred.
A good state of mind is better than taking any tonic, some diseases or symptoms are purely caused by bad psychological implication – not being killed by the disease but being scared to death by the disease – how wrong is that? I can tell you loudly: Screw it, it’s useless to think, I should live how to live. A good attitude is the key! So you should pay attention to adjust your mind – a sad face is a day, a happy day is also a day; time does not stop because you are sad, nor does it speed up because you are happy. If it were me, I wouldn’t go to the dinosaurs that may not necessarily appear in the year of monkeys to scare myself. Why ah to find their own blockage ah afraid of what ah, water to earth weir.
I want to live a day to enjoy a day to enjoy a day to be happy – wear other people’s shoes let them find it. Haha!
SO, wish me good health, of course, wish you good health and wish everyone good health!
This discussion ends here, class dismissed.