Life, old age, illness and death are natural laws, every village, every community will encounter cancer patients, but their life expectancy after finding cancer is very different, some people disappear in a few months, some people can live for more than ten years or even decades, and 90 years old are often seen.
Let's take an example, the following old man is an old smoker, smoked most of his life dry smoke, the result of 60 years old when there was frequent cough, chest tightness, sputum with blood, go to the hospital to check CT, long lung cancer:
This is a central lung cancer of the right lung, which is a bronchial mucosa that is perennially affected by tobacco toxic mist, growing a poisonous herb, and when it grows to 2 cm, it blocks the bronchi (within the aperture), causing obstructive atelectasis.
The first 4 are CT photos of lung cancer, and within the aperture are tumors and atelectasis.
To say that the old man is still lucky, lung squamous cell carcinoma is relatively slow to metastasis, it was found when it was not metastasized and spread, hospitalized for surgery, is a central lung squamous cell carcinoma.
Now it has been more than 5 years, the old man quit smoking before the operation, and he has gained a lot of weight.
Some people say that in the early stage of cancer, we should actively treat it, can be cured, don't spend money in the late stage, cure it badly, people and money are empty, you can find folk good Chinese medicine to prescribe some home remedies, spend less money, maybe live longer.
What is the truth?
Let's continue to look at a few cases to understand the inside knowledge of cancer and reduce the risk of detours.
In fact, there are differences in the life expectancy of cancer patients, mainly three factors: cancer stage, the speed of cancer cell development, and treatment sensitivity.
First, cancer staging
Most cancers can be cured early and do not affect lifespan.
This is a middle-aged woman, intermittent dry cough, cough medicine effect is average, chest CT found two malignant lung nodules, one on the left and right lungs, are ground glass nodules, irregular shape.
She then underwent two surgeries, the pathology was breast cancer and invasive lung adenocarcinoma, which did not require other treatment after the operation, and it has been many years now. This hidden danger was lifted in time and will not affect her life expectancy.
Strangling cancer cells like this at an early stage, most do not affect the natural lifespan.
Note: Since the early stage of cancer is often asymptomatic or mild, easy to miss, it is recommended that the conditional middle-aged and elderly people do a health examination every 1-2 years, especially chest CT and abdominal ultrasound (women plus a breast ultrasound or molybdenum target photography).
Because if the cancer is delayed until the advanced stage, it often loses the opportunity to cure, and the life expectancy is greatly shortened, even only a few months.
This lady is also lucky, found the right breast nodule for 1 year, gradually enlarged, color ultrasound and molybdenum target photography suggests breast cancer, hospitalization preparation for surgery, the result of the routine chest examination before the operation and found the left lung cancer (right picture), early, so after removing the breast tumor and then turned to the thoracic surgery to do lung cancer surgery.
It's been almost 3 years now, which is very good!
Cancer patients sometimes need a little bit of good luck!
Some people like to wear amulets, some people like to adopt small animals, some people like to release, maybe kindness and kindness can really bring good luck and avoid bad luck, after all, the cycle of heavenly paths, love has reincarnation.
Okay, let's move on to the next topic:
Second, the rate at which cancer cells develop
Even if it is the same kind of cancer, its development speed is not the same, some people are fast, some people are slow, the difference is particularly large.
The old man was diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of 83 (left), and because he was too old to take the risk of surgery, he chose to go with the flow.
As a result, she is a relatively lucky "lazy cancer", who is already eighty-eight years old this year, and the tumor grows very slowly (right picture).
Unfortunately, such a slow lung cancer is relatively rare, if it is a young group, the discovery of this irregular solid nodule, or should be treated as soon as possible, because malignant solid nodules tend to progress faster.
For example, this patient is very quick, also lung adenocarcinoma, mixed ground glass nodules (left), but in just 10 months, from 1.4 cm to 3.4 cm.
This rapidly growing cancer, if not detected and treated in time, tends to shorten its lifespan.
Third, therapeutic sensitivity
Even if they are all advanced cancers, the survival time is very different, and those with sensitive treatment measures can prolong life.
At present, there are many treatment methods for advanced lung cancer, various targeted drugs, immunotherapy, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, elimination therapy, etc., and some types of treatment sensitivity can greatly prolong life.
This is a middle-aged woman with coughing chest tightness, found advanced lung adenocarcinoma, extensive pleural metastasis, through targeted therapy, it has been two and a half years now, and the lesion has been stable.
Targeted therapy and immunotherapy have extended the lives of many advanced cancer patients, and the cost is gradually decreasing, and the medical insurance directory is also expanding, and more and more patients will be able to afford these costs in the future.
The above case has been shown to you twice, the old smokers with advanced small cell lung cancer, through the comprehensive treatment of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, it has been three and a half years.
Advanced cancer, to find a sensitive treatment, is a blessing.
Summary: Cancer patients affect the factors of life expectancy, in addition to the above 3 main points, the patient's mentality, nutritional status, etc. are also influential, optimistic and cheerful personality, scientific dietary conditioning can provide strong support from both physical and mental aspects, to help defeat cancer cells!
Finally, the sentence: I hope to conquer cancer as soon as possible!
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