Myths about malignant tumor treatment 1. Cancer is an incurable disease. The World Health Organization has clarified that cancer is a disease caused by the environment and life style. For example, long-term smoking, heavy drinking, long-term consumption of moldy, pickled, burnt and smoked food. Lack of vitamins, proteins, trace elements, etc.; as well as pollution of the atmosphere, work environment and living environment are the main and common factors that cause cancer. Of course, family genetic predisposition, which is often referred to as genetic susceptibility, is an inherent factor in the prevalence of cancer. According to the World Health Organization, 1/3 of cancers can be prevented, 1/3 of cancers can be cured, and the last 1/3 can be treated. Cancer has become a multiple and common disease as well as a chronic disease. The chance of cancer in everyone’s life is great, so there is no need for us to talk about cancer. We need to be frank, positive and optimistic about it. 2. Cancer is worse after surgery, more likely to metastasize and spread, and die earlier. This is definitely a kind of false statement. Internationally, the best treatment method for solid tumors is surgery, because only surgery can remove the tumor fundamentally, therefore, surgery is the most direct, effective and certainly the best method. Second and third are radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Of course, there are also immunotherapy, Chinese herbal medicine and molecular targeted therapy which has been developing rapidly in recent years. The key to determine the effectiveness of surgery is the early and late detection of cancer. The 5-year and 10-year survival rates after surgery for early stage cancer have reached nearly 70-80% and 50-60% respectively. Therefore, this argument and viewpoint has killed countless tumor patients, which should be said as “unforgivable sin”! Many tumor patients are not seriously ill when they are found, and still have the chance to be cured by surgery, but the patients or their families give up the chance to be cured by surgery after listening to this kind of sophistry, and thus, they also lose the chance to survive, which is the most saddening thing for us medical personnel! This is the best example of what we usually call the typical “death does not pay”! 3. Taking Chinese medicine is better than surgery and western chemotherapy. As we all know, the main methods of tumor treatment are surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Of course, there are also Chinese herbal medicine, immunotherapy, molecular targeted therapy and so on. It is true that surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy have their painful and risky sides. However, it is undeniable that they are the main and best methods to treat tumors, that is to say they are the main protagonists and mainstays are the main methods recognized internationally. The cost and benefit of any treatment method are proportional to each other. Anyone would like to choose a treatment method with good efficacy and less pain, but it is not realistic at present. If one must choose, it will only be an escape from reality and one will certainly pay the price for this unrealistic choice. Undeniably, TCM has a role to play in complementing post-operative recovery and alleviating the side effects of radiotherapy, but its use alone is generally not advocated. Because, the effect of its use alone is not recognized by international academic circles. 4. If the tumor is malignant, no surgery will be done, and if it is benign, surgery will be done. There are two reasons for this view: Firstly, people are not clear about the feature that malignant tumors are fatal if not treated, while benign tumors are generally not fatal if not treated. Secondly, I can understand the reality of the patients and their families: firstly, most of the malignant tumor patients have poor treatment effect and may cost a lot of money, which may cause the patient’s family to be empty; secondly, everyone’s economic condition is generally limited, so once they hear that the lesion is malignant, they are prone to have the above idea. However, what I want to say to you is: this kind of thinking and view is the most important thing! The reason is that malignant tumors can be fatal if not treated, while benign tumors are generally not fatal if not treated. The reason is that malignant tumors can be fatal without treatment, while benign tumors are generally not fatal without treatment. 5. Generally speaking: the treatment of tumor is mainly a multidisciplinary comprehensive treatment based on surgery. Therefore, a considerable part of tumor patients need to cooperate with chemotherapy or radiotherapy or traditional Chinese medicine after surgery for better long-term effect, and the adverse reactions caused by new chemotherapy drugs and new radiotherapy techniques have been greatly reduced than before. Furthermore, any malignant tumor has the possibility of recurrence and metastasis, so you must follow the medical advice after surgery and seek regular review from your primary care physician. This will ensure the best efficacy of the patient and also let the doctor know your health condition at any time, which will play the role of escort for your health. 6, as long as the body does not have any discomfort there is no need to go to the hospital for examination and physical examination, that do not only waste time and money. Ancient Chinese medicine pointed out: “the doctor on the treatment of the disease”. That is to say: a good doctor will treat you when you are not sick, that is to say, before you are not sick to do preventive health care, the purpose is to keep you from getting sick. This shows how wise our ancient people were! Modern medicine proposes that one point of prevention is better than twelve points of treatment, speaking of the same reason. Therefore, we must develop the habit of going to the hospital in time to see a doctor if we are not feeling well, or people who are not usually sick, especially those over 45 years old, must develop the habit of getting a medical check-up at least once a year. We all must know this medical knowledge: malignant tumors do not have any symptoms in the early stage, and when they have symptoms, most of them are in the middle and late stage of cancer. At that time, even if we spend more money, suffer more pain and regret, how much use will it be? The doctor can’t save the patient’s life! To detect cancer at an early stage, the only way is firstly, regular physical examination; secondly, if you have some uncomfortable symptoms such as frequent cough, chest pain or even blood in sputum, frequent abdominal discomfort, bloating, wasting, weakness, low fever, blood in stool and blood in urine, you should go to hospital for examination in time. 7, to see a doctor only to special, big, figure name: that is, only to the specialist hospital, only to the big and famous hospital to find a famous doctor. In fact, more than 90% of the diseases we face are some common diseases, multi-morbidity, really belong to the medical definition of the difficult disease is a minority of. The vast majority of surgeries, such as pneumonectomy, esophagectomy, gastrectomy, nephrectomy, mastectomy, and even heart surgery, have been matured decades or decades ago, and have long been popular in major hospitals. The treatment of tumors, which is so intimidating to us, is also standardized in major hospitals both at home and abroad, and the treatment level and treatment plan of major hospitals are basically synchronized with the world. There is no question of who has the unique technology. There is no question of who has the unique technology. Patients can rest assured that they do not have to “look at this mountain and see that mountain”. As a sensible patient, you only need to find a hospital that is close to your home, familiar to you, relatively economical, and can provide you with peace of mind, convenience, and satisfactory service in the medical process, as long as it can actually solve the problem. Don’t get involved in everything, looking for a brand name, so that the patient and family exhaustion, but also confused. 8, the hospital as bad luck or inauspicious place, as a last resort, try not to go; sickness, treatment as a shame or a shameful thing. Sneak around and go alone. As the saying goes: people eat grains and cereals that are not sick? This is the truth. Realistically speaking: the hospital is a lucky place for each of us, who can say that we do not deal with the hospital in our life which? Here we have relieved the pain; here we have gained health! Furthermore, each of us must have a doctor as a friend, because he can help us solve a lot of confusion about our body and health! Diseases are always with human beings and life, so instead of treating them as incompatible mortal enemies, we should treat them as friends and get along amicably. That is why: we should have a good attitude, learn to communicate and confide, reduce stress, increase confidence, and learn to face diseases correctly. 9. Consider death as the most terrible thing; treat the word “death” as the most taboo word. Because of this, one-third of cancer patients die of fear before they are treated, and finally they become ingrates and ghosts. From the day people are born, they grow up and die day by day. Life and death are a pair of contradictions, throughout our life, they are mutually exclusive, without life there is no death; without death there is no life. In our daily life, life is the norm and death is inevitable. Each of us should face death correctly, that is to say, we should have a correct concept of life and death. We should be happy and enjoy life when we are alive. Westerners believe that people enter heaven when they die, so they don’t have much fear of death, while our culture believes that people enter hell when they die, so we are very afraid of death. Actually this is not true, people are all the same after death, they all enter a state of nothingness. Therefore, we should educate everyone from a young age about the concept of life and death, so that everyone can have a correct concept of life and death. Facing death frankly and calmly is the subject before each of us, and it can also reflect the culture, civilization and calmness of a nation!