Some people say that cancer is scared to death, do not check do not know, find out frightened, collapse to do not eat or drink soon people will be gone.
Is this true?
Dr. Hao quarreled with a small hair during the Spring Festival, that brother was smart when he was young, but unfortunately he did not like to study and dropped out of school early to work, and now he is a self-employed person who is blessed.
He likes to do things based on experience, drunken chatter about cancer problems, said that he has seen several cancers are not long gone, if you do not go to the examination, there is no psychological burden, eat well and drink well will definitely live longer, and do not have to spend money...
Let's take a look at what cancer really looks like
Let's look at the speed at which cancer develops:
There are many kinds of malignant tumors, the growth rate is inconsistent, even if it is the same cancer or even the same pathological type, there are fast and slow, the development of fast months can cause death, slow can survive with tumors for many years.
Example 1:
This old lady was fortunate that at the age of 83, her chest was tight and weak, and CT found left lung cancer (within the aperture), which was an irregular solid lung nodule with bronchectomy, vascular collection, lobe, and pleural traction.
Later, coronary heart disease was also found, and he was hospitalized for 10 days according to coronary heart disease, and the symptoms completely disappeared, and he was discharged home without doing the treatment of lung cancer.
After the annual review, this year is the 5th year, the old lady is 88 years old, the tumor has more than doubled in the re-examination, but there is no metastasis spread, except for the occasional cough, chest tightness, no other discomfort.
This kind of elderly person, with mild symptoms and slow progression, regular observation is also a good strategy.
Example 2:
The old smoker was not so lucky, smoking for 40 years, coughing, left chest and back pain for 3 months, CT found 2.7cm lung cancer, also an irregular solid nodule, with lobe signs, pleural depression.
He chose to take Chinese medicine, as well as eat well, drink well, and rest well.
After 4 months, I felt that there was no improvement, and there was also breath holding, breathing difficulties, and physical decline, and the CT lung cancer had grown to 8cm, which was a low-differentiated lung squamous cell carcinoma.
In just 4 months, from 2.7 cm to 8.0 cm, it is clear that the treatment measures he chose are not optimal.
And Chinese medicine folk remedies cost a lot of money...
If he had actively operated on 4 months ago, there was still a chance of healing with postoperative adjuvant therapy.
Example 3:
This is also an old smoker, chest tightness, cough, a small amount of sputum, gradually aggravated and difficult to breathe, up the stairs are difficult. CT found left central lung cancer, the pathology is small cell lung cancer.
If left untreated, the average life expectancy is about 3 months.
About 60% of small cell lung cancers are sensitive to chemoradiation and can prolong life.
He later did systemic chemotherapy, chest conformal radiotherapy, preventive whole brain irradiation, with traditional Chinese medicine liver protection and rectification, it has been 3 and a half years now (1 left in the picture above), reviewing the tumor atrophy, only a small amount of interstitial changes remain, the impact on lung function is not large, it seems that the face is rosy and energetic.
Of course, the high recurrence rate of advanced small cell lung cancer is related to many factors, and the treatment effect is so good that it belongs to the minority.
Small summary
The above 3 cases are very representative and suggest the following:
1. Some cancers develop slowly, not eating any secret recipe;
2. Smoking is a high-risk factor for lung cancer, and can accelerate cancer cells, old smokers should pay attention to physical examination, find small tumors to be treated in time, and seize the window period;
3. If there is a sensitive treatment for advanced cancer, you may wish to try it under the premise of doing what you can, and miracles are often spelled out.
Now back to the original question: Why a medical exam? Will cancer not be examined in a good state of mind, have a good appetite, and live longer?
Cancer from early to advanced, need a process, early stage can be found in time are lucky, most can be cured.
This process from early to late, long and short, can grow up to more than ten years.
Mixed ground glass nodules, significantly enlarged at 10 months
This patient is lung adenocarcinoma, the development is relatively fast, the first CT physical examination is a 1.4 cm mixed glass nodule, surgical treatment is recommended.
The family did not tell him the truth, secretly asked many hospital experts, and some suggested regular observation.
The child is very filial piety, and he bought a lot of nutritional products to adjust, 10 months to bring him back to do a review, the result increased to 3.7cm, the solid composition significantly increased.
This kind of can not be delayed, immediately hospitalized for thoracoscopic minimally invasive surgery, the pathology is invasive lung adenocarcinoma, adherent type 50%, solid type 25%, acinar type 25%, equivalent to medium and high differentiation, cleaning lymph nodes did not find metastasis.
This lung cancer, if it is not a physical examination, insist on eating and drinking without examination, it will not take long to appear cough, cough up blood and other symptoms, and the tumor has been in contact with the thicker lung blood vessels on the hilar side of the lungs, and the metastasis route of cancer cells has been.
In fact, now our physical examination of the elderly is not enough, many lung cancer patients are symptoms of several months to the hospital for examination, so that at this stage most of the lung cancer is first found when it is in the middle and advanced stages.
Fortunately, lung cancer diagnosis and treatment technology has developed by leaps and bounds in recent years, and there are many treatment methods in the middle and late stages, the effect is good, and the cost is getting lower and lower.
Middle and advanced lung cancer, do not give up easily
An article shared by Dr. Zheng Yuzhen in Shanghai:
In a study published in the Thoracic Surgery Yearbook, 35 patients with oligostasis non-small cell lung cancer who received local therapy were included. Patients with negative mediastinal lymph nodes (N2-) were found to have a 5-year survival rate of 58% (p=0.028).
These patients all have ≤ 3 metastatic lesions, which are stage IV, and 58% of patients survive for a long time through treatment.
Life is only once, tumor prevention and treatment has been on the road, step by step!