Cancer is already a disease we are very familiar with. However, there are many misconceptions in its treatment process. Such misconceptions not only delay the best treatment time, but also cause great harm to patients’ heart. The 9 misconceptions listed below cannot be generalized, but they sound the alarm of life for cancer patients once again.
Myth 1: Cancer is an incurable disease
Some patients think that having malignant tumor is a death sentence, so they give up treatment. In fact, malignant tumor is not an incurable disease. Initially, one-third of tumors can be cured, one-third of patients can survive for a long time, and the remaining one-third can also be improved clinically. Therefore, tumor is actually a curable disease.
Myth 2: Cancer discovery should be kept secret from patients
In clinical practice, we often encounter family members requesting medical staff to conceal the true condition from patients, which was once considered as a protective measure for cancer patients. But in fact, a series of treatment processes such as surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy require close cooperation from patients. If patients are not informed, they will have difficulty in understanding the treatment and cannot cooperate well, but they will easily miss the best treatment time.
Myth 3: radiotherapy is toxic and difficult for patients to bear
It is a common perception of patients that radiotherapy is very toxic and will break their bodies. Although chemotherapy can kill cancer cells and also damage blood cells, epithelial cells of digestive tract and hair follicle cells, resulting in side effects such as lowering of white blood cells, malignant vomiting, hair loss, etc., for subclinical metastases that have metastasized throughout the body or still exist in the body after surgery, killing it with chemotherapy is still an essential cancer treatment.
Meanwhile, for the various side effects of chemotherapy, there are many drugs that can maintain liver cells and raise the number of white blood cells, thus reducing the damage of chemotherapy to the organism.
Myth 4: Blindly believing in secret folk remedies
Many cancer patients tend to be overwhelmed by the rumor that someone has a secret recipe for curing cancer, which has been passed down for many generations and has cured a certain cancer patient, and many patients have been cheated, wasted money and lost the best treatment time. In fact, some cancer treatment “professionals” and “ancestral families” not only have received formal medical education, but also do not have some medical common sense; the patients they boast of curing may be misdiagnosed, not tumors; in addition, most of the cancer patients are treated by a combination of multiple methods. It is difficult to determine whether one of these methods has worked or is the result of the combined effect.
Myth 5: Believing in or relying on certain health care products
Nowadays, there are a lot of propaganda of various “anti-cancer drugs”, but some of the “health” branded health drugs and nutrition products have no therapeutic effect at all; some of the “drugs” claiming that the ingredients are pure Chinese medicine and proven to be effective are also not to be trusted. “The so-called “experimental results”, more than 95% are the results of animal experiments, rather than the results of clinical patient applications, which is only a business “advertising techniques “This is just an advertising technique.
In fact, supplements can only be used as adjuvant therapy for nutritional support, and must be used in conjunction with surgery and radiotherapy to achieve certain efficacy; if you want to rely on health care products and nutritional products to treat tumors, it is biased.
Misconception 6: Expecting new technology and new drugs
Nowadays, many new technologies of tumor treatment and chemotherapy items will emerge every year. These new technologies and new drugs do bring gospel to some patients, however, there are some patients who mistakenly think that these new technologies or new drugs are the only remedies, and insist on using these drugs, or refuse other therapies while waiting for new drugs to appear. In fact, there are dozens of tumor chemotherapy drugs in clinical application. Before administering chemotherapy to tumor patients, a comprehensive analysis will be made according to the patient’s disease stage and physical condition, and new and high-priced drugs will not be preferred. Otherwise, it not only does not bring better curative effect to patients, but also adds unnecessary financial burden to patients.
Myth 7: Eat nutritious tumor cells grow fast
Some tumor patients think that the more nutritious things they eat, the faster the tumor cells will grow; if they don’t eat nutritious things, they can “starve” the tumor cells. In fact, tumor surgery and radiotherapy need good body as guarantee, without good physical strength, it is difficult to bear surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Therefore, in tumor treatment, we must strengthen nutrition appropriately.
Myth 8: Tumor removal means cured
Many patients and family members think that cancer is cured after surgery, but they do not understand that malignant tumor is metastatic and invasive, and can spread to the whole body through lymphatic and blood channels. Blind optimism delays the follow-up treatment of patients and eventually affects their quality of survival.
Myth 9: No more hospital review after discharge
Some patients think they are cured after the symptoms are relieved or the lump disappears, that is, they give up the treatment, and as a result, relapse or distant metastasis occurs soon and the disease deteriorates, so that all the treatment is abandoned. Therefore, it is very necessary to review regularly and continue treatment, especially for patients whose symptoms have improved.