What should I do if I have cancer?

We know that the incidence of cancer is increasing due to environmental factors such as ionizing radiation, chemical substances, viral infections, etc. and intrinsic factors such as heredity. Once you have cancer, what will you do? Will you be devastated and lament the unfairness of life? Or do you face it calmly and receive systematic treatment? We understand that once a person knows that he or she has cancer, it is psychologically difficult to accept it at once, resulting in psychological pain and depression, and pessimism is a normal reaction to this painful life experience. However, as medical workers, we hope that patients can get out of pessimism as soon as possible, because psychological pain and depression can directly affect the regression and prognosis of some patients. On the contrary, patients will directly benefit from maintaining an optimistic attitude, facing the disease calmly, and cooperating with medical staff to receive surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy to improve the treatment effect to the best. When it comes to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, some patients and their families and even some medical personnel have some one-sided or even wrong perceptions, such as some people think, I have not felt anything all the time, it is impossible to have cancer; cancer is an incurable disease, early detection and diagnosis will not help; exaggerating the side effects of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, thinking that surgery can accelerate the spread of cancer and is a hornet’s nest, thinking that chemotherapy They think that chemotherapy will only make the hair fall out, that after chemotherapy, they will not be able to eat and will die faster, that radiotherapy is not useful at all and so on; others think that there is no need to treat cancer in the elderly; that prescriptions are all-powerful and all-inclusive …… so they are not standardized and systematic in the whole treatment process, thus delaying the disease, missing the best time and affecting the whole treatment effect. In fact, for many cancers, as long as they are found to have cancer, they can be treated with the best treatment. In fact, many cancers, as long as they are detected early, can be completely cured by simple surgery or post-operative adjuvant treatment. There are some cancers, such as choriocarcinoma, testicular tumor, malignant lymphoma, childhood neuroblastoma, nephroblastoma, childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia, hairy cell leukemia, etc., which can be completely cured by medical treatment alone, and there are some cancers, such as breast cancer, osteosarcoma, colorectal cancer, small cell lung cancer, etc., which can be cured by comprehensive treatment to improve the cure rate. Even if some cancers cannot be cured, there are many measures we can take to achieve tumor reduction, pressure relief, and pain relief to prolong survival and improve the quality of life of cancer patients. It should be pointed out that so far, there is no simple treatment or medicine to cure all tumors, and it is unlikely to do so in the future. We often hear some partial or secret remedies claiming to cure all tumors, and these people are either ignorant or liars if not. Therefore, we suggest that when a person is diagnosed with cancer, firstly, to overcome oneself, to overcome the fear of cancer, to build up confidence, to seize the time to see a doctor in oncology specialist, to clarify the diagnosis and stage through pathology and other examinations as soon as possible; secondly, to cooperate with the physician, to choose the most appropriate treatment method, to operate if it can, to carry out radiotherapy and chemotherapy on schedule if it is needed after surgery, even if it is Even for patients with advanced disease, we should also carry out relevant treatment with the aim of controlling symptoms and improving the quality of life. It is important to remind that specialty treatment is very important. If you want to do surgery, you have to go to surgery department, if you want to do chemotherapy, you have to go to chemotherapy department, if you want to do radiotherapy, you have to do radiotherapy department. In addition to general radiotherapy and general adjuvant chemotherapy, we also carry out conformal radiotherapy, synchronous radiotherapy, continuous pump chemotherapy, chronotherapy, molecular targeted therapy, interventional (chemotherapy), thoracic (abdominal) cavity intracavity infusion chemotherapy, deep vein placement, deep tissue biopsy and other advanced treatment techniques, which not only improve the level of tumor diagnosis and It has not only improved the diagnosis and treatment effect of tumor, but also reduced the toxic side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. The medical staff of the Department of Medical Oncology always insists on “patient-centered” and provides high-quality and specialized integrated treatment technologies such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy and molecular targeted therapy to serve the health of tumor patients to the end. When it comes to advanced cancer, we have to mention pain. Pain is the most common and fearful symptom accompanying cancer. 1/4~1/2 of first diagnosed cancer patients, 1/3 of patients undergoing treatment and more than 3/4 of advanced cancer patients have cancer pain. More than 75% of cancer patients require opioids for pain relief. Generally speaking, the vast majority of cancer pain patients can achieve ideal pain relief with correct pain relief methods, but in clinical work, many factors affect the pain relief effect, the most important of which is that patients do not know enough about morphine and other opioids, doubt the pain relief effect of these drugs, worry excessively about the addiction, drug resistance and toxicity of opioids, and some patients do not take the drugs according to the time, but wait until the pain is unbearable. This often affects the effect and increases unnecessary pain.