What are some of the misconceptions of tumor patients?

Myth 1: Recovery period, no more treatment The treatment course of most tumor patients is: surgery-radiotherapy-chemotherapy, or only one or two of these treatments are chosen, and at the end of the treatment, doctors will mostly tell the patients, “Your surgery is very successful, and your radiotherapy and chemotherapy regimen is very successful, go home and recuperate for Go home and recuperate for a while.” In fact, the surgery and radiotherapy were indeed successful or effective. When the patient was re-examined a few months later, the mass had indeed disappeared and the patient was so happy that he or she would tell everyone, “I am cured”. However, a few months later, the patient found that the tumor had metastasized or recurred. This is not an isolated case. According to statistics, the recurrence rate of cancer patients in infiltration or spreading stage treated with single radiotherapy, chemotherapy or surgery is as high as 50% within half a year. As a matter of fact, the recovery period is even more critical for treatment. The recurrence and metastasis of tumor cells determine that this period is also a “high-risk period”. A major principle of comprehensive treatment of malignant tumors is the “all-round principle”, which emphasizes that patients should “continue the treatment” during the recovery period, and after the surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy in the early stage, the patient’s body suffers a lot of injuries, and the immunity is extremely low, so the tumor cells remaining in the body will Tumor cells remaining in the body will wait for the opportunity to grow. At this time, we should be more vigilant and enhance the immunity of the patient’s body. Misconception 2: Letting fate take its course and giving up treatment The reason why cancer is so terrible is its persistently high mortality rate. People often refer to cancer as “cancer demon” and “incurable disease”, and there is the saying that “nine out of ten cancers are buried, and the remaining one is not cancer”, so once you find yourself suffering from cancer, you will completely give up treatment and let fate take its course. Once they find out that they have cancer, they will completely give up the treatment and leave it to God’s will, losing many opportunities for regeneration for nothing. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 1/3 of malignant tumors can be prevented, 1/3 can be cured, and 1/3 can reduce pain and prolong life, and the key is to choose scientific and effective treatment measures. The State Ministry of Health also pointed out that cancer is not incurable, and the key is early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment. The occurrence and development of cancer is a process. It takes quite a long time from the appearance of the first cancer cell to its development to pose a threat to human life. Early cancer grows and develops slowly, so as long as one pays attention to some early abnormal signals, one has enough time to find it and treat it quickly, eliminating it in the “nip” stage. Clinical statistics show that through effective integrated treatment, early cancer tumors generally have a cure rate of 80-90%. Misconception 3: Being confused and wrongly seeking medical treatment At present, domestic tumor treatment programs are not standardized and there is no uniform standard, so that medical accidents happen from time to time. According to the statistics, more than 85% of the tumor patients in China do not go to specialized tumor hospitals for consultation, resulting in some patients, who can obviously be cured, delaying the best time for treatment because of going to the wrong hospitals and clinics, and the doctors do not know how to treat the disease. Myth 4: Believe in advertisements and delay treatment Anti-cancer drug market is a mixed market with uneven quality of drugs. The quality of medicines varies. Many health foodstuffs under the banner of anti-cancer medicines disturb the market information, resulting in many patients and their family members listening to false advertisements and mistaking health foodstuffs as medicines for treatment, and the tumors not only do not shrink, but also grow and spread like crazy, which delays the time of treatment and leaves the family members and the patients with irreparable regrets. To choose anticancer drugs, we should look at five points (please combine them with clinical practice and be guided by doctor’s consultation): First, look at the batch number, whether it is “health food” or “State Pharmaceutical Approval Character”; second, look at the formula; third, look at the quality control, and only in the drugs produced under the national GMP standard can stable quality and efficacy be guaranteed. To ensure stable quality and efficacy; four look at the effect, whether the national authority of medical institutions and hospitals to verify. Myth 5: Rush to success, “excessive treatment” The so-called “excessive treatment” is some unnecessary and unhelpful treatments for patients. For example, some advanced cancer patients have multiple metastases and proliferation, and cannot undergo surgery; if there are no life-threatening complications, obstruction, hemorrhage, etc., surgery is not beneficial; some patients undergo repeated chemotherapy, resulting in low white blood cells and physical weakness, and then chemotherapy will increase the pain of the patients and accelerate their deaths; and some cancer patients undergo excessive radiotherapy due to the sequelae caused by radiation therapy which are often difficult to treat and painful. In fact, tumor treatment drugs are basically based on cytotoxic principle to kill cancer cells, which have strong toxic side effects, and WHO statistics show that the “pathogenic” effects of almost all chemical drugs are equal to their therapeutic effects; that is to say, the application of a certain chemical drug to treat a certain disease will potentially trigger another disease at the same time. This means that the application of a chemical to treat one disease can potentially cause another. The root cause of over-treatment is the misleading concept of “disease-oriented” rather than “people-oriented”. According to statistics, if tumor patients who have been treated by single means of surgery and radiotherapy do not undergo comprehensive treatment, the probability of metastasis and spread of cancer cells is several times higher than that of other tumor patients.