I. Keep in touch with your doctor The feeling of going home from the hospital is urgent, but always remember to take the following treasures with you before you go: a word from your doctor, a personal data, and a kind of contact information. 1, a personal data: this information should include your discharge diagnosis, discharge records and valuable test results. The discharge diagnosis includes the name of the disease suffered, the time of entry and exit from the hospital, etc. It is also required for reimbursement of some patients. 2. The discharge record (or discharge summary) includes the situation at the time of admission and discharge, the kind of treatment received during the hospitalization, the dosage of medication, the diagnosis at the time of discharge, the medication taken at the time of discharge, and the hospitalization at the time of discharge. 3. Valuable test results include all abnormal test results during hospitalization, and other normal results that the doctor recommends you should keep. Surgical pathology or cytology results are especially important for tumor patients undergoing surgery. One way to contact you: Ask your doctor for an office contact number to ensure that you can reach your supervising physician in time when you have questions or are unwell. 2. Review and follow-up is essential 1. Review is the most important thing that should not be forgotten after discharge Benign diseases can be called cured when symptoms and signs disappear and functions are restored after treatment. After the first stage of surgery or radiotherapy or chemotherapy treatment, it is necessary to continue the planned comprehensive treatment and regular examination. If abnormalities are found during the review, the doctor may recommend further examination. It is a big mistake not to undergo further examination because of the fear of “what if the cancer really comes back”. In fact, it is the most terrible thing to leave the cancer untreated. 2.When should I start the review? Usually, in the first year of treatment, the review should be conducted once in 1 to 3 months, and the time interval can be gradually extended in the following years. 3.What will be checked during the review? Usually, during the review, there will be blood collection (search 9 factual disorders), imaging (X-ray, abdominal ultrasound, CT, MRI, etc.), and sometimes gastroscopy, colonoscopy, bone scan, PET/CT, and other tests may be added depending on the condition. 4.Follow-up is a bridge Current tumor treatment mostly adopts comprehensive treatment. After completing the first stage of tumor treatment, follow-up treatment, such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy, Chinese medicine, immunotherapy, etc., is still needed, and these treatments need to last for 6 to 24 months or even longer. Through follow-up, tumor recurrence, metastasis and second primary tumor can be detected in time. After treatment, malignant tumor does not mean cure, it may recur and metastasize for a long time, and recurrence and metastasis can prolong life or even cure if they are detected early and treated reasonably. Therefore, regular follow-up is necessary, and at the same time, it can also detect new primary tumors. The length of follow-up time is different in different tumors. For most malignant tumors, 5 years of follow-up is appropriate, and the follow-up interval is 3 months. Generally, after 2 years, the follow-up period can be changed to once every 6 months. The follow-up items are also different in different tumors, which should be decided according to the recurrence and metastasis characteristics of that tumor. After the disease, you should insist on the follow-up after 5 years before you can breathe a sigh of relief. In order to keep a detailed record of diagnosis and treatment, the hospital will establish a medical record for you since the first day you come to the hospital. If you see a doctor in an outpatient clinic, you will have an outpatient medical record; if you are hospitalized, you will naturally have an inpatient medical record.