“Talking about cancer” is the number one attitude that most people have towards cancer. Cancer has always been a threat to human health and even life-threatening. Therefore, cancer prevention is a matter of urgency. There is generally a period when cancer should not be detected, which is also known as latent period. Once cancer appears, we should save it in time to get more treatment opportunities for ourselves. When it comes to cancer treatment, people’s first thought is “cutting it out”. The concept of surgery for tumor treatment is deeply rooted in people’s mind, but in fact, there is not only one way to treat cancer. Radiation therapy, chemotherapy and Chinese medicine are all used in cancer treatment, how much do you know about these methods? There are 4 main cancer treatment methods: Scope of application of surgery: Not all cancer patients are suitable for surgery. Generally speaking, except for malignant tumors of the hematological system (such as leukemia and malignant lymphoma), most solid tumors can be treated by surgery. In particular, early and middle stage cancers without local and distant metastases and tumors that are generally small are suitable for surgical treatment. Risks: Surgical treatment has certain risks, such as lung cancer patients may affect respiratory function after lung lobectomy, and osteosarcoma patients may affect mobility after amputation. Cancer treatment: chemotherapy Chemotherapy is the application of chemical drugs (including endocrine drugs, etc.) to treat malignant tumors. Chemotherapy drugs are often injected intravenously, taken orally or in other forms into the body to kill tumors. Currently, there are three major types of chemotherapy drugs: traditional cytotoxic drugs, targeted drugs and biological agents. The fastest growing drug in recent years is targeted drugs, which are now available for almost all tumors except biliary tract system tumors. However, most targeted drugs cannot completely replace cytotoxic drugs now, and have to be applied in combination with cytotoxic drugs. Scope of application: Chemotherapy is for tumors that are sensitive to chemotherapy drugs such as lymphoma, leukemia and other blood system diseases, breast cancer, gastrointestinal tumors, lung cancer and reproductive system tumors. After entering the body, chemotherapy drugs will be distributed to all parts of the body and have a strong effect not only on solid tumors, but also on small invisible metastases. The effect of chemotherapy depends on the type and condition of the tumor, some of them can be cured, while more of them inhibit the growth and spread of the tumor. Toxic side reactions: The toxic side reactions of chemotherapy are mainly systemic reactions, such as bone marrow suppression, gastrointestinal reactions, such as decreased blood count, nausea, vomiting and phlebitis. With proper treatment, severe reactions such as liver and kidney function damage and cardiac function damage are not very common in clinical practice. With the continuous development of technology, the side effects of new chemotherapy drugs have been greatly reduced and their safety has been significantly improved. Cancer Treatment: Radiotherapy Radiotherapy, or radiation therapy, is a treatment method that irradiates tumors with various kinds of rays of different energy to inhibit and kill cancer cells. 70% of tumor patients need to receive radiation therapy at different stages of the disease process. Scope of application: Radiotherapy is mainly used for the radical treatment of relatively limited solid tumors, such as nasopharyngeal carcinoma, head and neck tumors, which are not sensitive to chemotherapy and can be cured by radiotherapy alone. For other tumors, radiotherapy is mostly used as one of the comprehensive means. Especially for patients with mid- to late-stage tumors, preoperative can make the tumor shrink in scope to achieve the effect of stage reduction and create conditions for surgery; intraoperative palliative treatment; postoperative radiotherapy for incompletely cut parts can prevent recurrence. For leukemia and other systemic tumors, radiotherapy has limited effect. Toxic side effects: The toxic side effects of radiotherapy are mainly local reactions, which are related to the radiotherapy field. For example, head and neck radiotherapy may cause dry mouth, sore throat, neck fibrosis and loss of taste function; chest radiotherapy may cause radioactive lung changes and radioactive esophagitis. With the advancement of radiotherapy technology, radioactive brain damage and paraplegia, which used to occur frequently, are less likely to occur. Cancer treatment: Chinese medicine is characterized by slow and long-lasting treatment to stabilize the disease and achieve the realm of “survival with tumor”. The most prominent ones are: 1. Chinese medicine is useful in the prevention of tumors. 2. 2. Post-operative use of Chinese medicine for tumor patients can adjust immune function and reduce tumor recurrence and metastasis. 3. Radiotherapy patients use traditional Chinese medicine to reduce the side effects of radiotherapy, help patients’ body recover, and relieve the damage of drugs and radiation to the body. 4.Post-operative maintenance treatment. 5.For advanced tumor patients who are not suitable for western medical treatment, they can be treated with evidence-based treatment and use Chinese medicine to improve symptoms and reflect individualized treatment. Prevention of cancer is the most crucial! It is better to treat cancer after suffering from cancer than to take preventive measures to avoid cancer from coming to your door, so what are the ways to prevent cancer? As a condiment, it can remove fishy, is a necessary ingredient for fish stew and meat stew, and can also warm the stomach and disperse cold, detoxify and sterilize. “Eat radish in winter and eat ginger in summer”, is to emphasize that eating ginger can relieve the discomfort caused by people’s greed for cold and over-eating cold in summer. Countermeasures: cut fresh ginger into slices, pickled with vinegar or salt, and contain two slices every morning, which is good for the general public as well as people with a weak cold constitution and easily afraid of cold. Note: Although ginger is good, but not for people with heat evidence, face acne, mouth and tongue sores, people who love to lose their temper should not eat more ginger. 2, only eat seven percent full overeating is the enemy of health, not only to increase the burden on the stomach and intestines, but also lead to a lack of heart gas, inducing heart disease. In addition, eating too much will also lead to obesity, brain ischemia and hypoxia. Countermeasures: to achieve seven percent full, you must chew and swallow slowly, feel the changes in their own hunger, there is a feeling of fullness, even if you want to eat again, you should immediately put down chopsticks. 3, food therapy for minor illnesses many people ignore the importance of food therapy, a sickness to the hospital for injections and infusions, abuse of antibiotics. Chinese medicine speaks of “medicine and food of the same origin”, is to emphasize that many foods have medicinal value. Before food therapy should identify their own physique, is deficient is real, is cold is hot, choose the right food. 4, control emotions less sulking for women, anger will make the skin “most unlucky”, followed by the uterus, breast and thyroid. And a positive attitude can reduce stress and reduce the chances of heart disease. In daily life, we should have a good state of mind. 5.Walking for 1 hour every day Walking can also prevent cancer. A 30-minute walk after meals every day, or a four-hour walk every week, can reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer by half. Just one hour of walking a day can reduce the chances of colon cancer by half. Because pancreatic cancer is associated with excess body heat, walking burns calories and can directly prevent pancreatic cancer. In addition, sweating after exercise can make carcinogenic substances such as lead and strontium excreted from the body with sweat, thus playing a role in cancer prevention.