In life, I think everyone has heard all kinds of rumors about cancer, among which the widespread is that the more cancer is treated, the faster the patient dies, and once chemotherapy is started, it is completely finished.
Many cancer patients and their families have indeed found that after receiving treatment for a period of time, the patient's physical fitness has become worse and weaker.
It has also been found that before the cancer was diagnosed, the patient did not have any physical discomfort, or only recently felt unwell, and when he was examined, he found cancer.
After learning of this news and starting treatment, the patient's health deteriorated, or even did not improve at all, and in just a few months, it went to organ failure and death.
It is precisely because of the appearance of various cancers that many people have doubts about various treatment methods of cancer, believing that cancer is a terminal illness, treatment is only a waste of patients' money, and the final result is only that people and money are empty.
But is this really the case? Why do some cancer patients get worse and worse the treatment?
1. The nature and stage of the tumor itself
The prognosis effect of cancer is mainly based on the degree of malignancy of the patient's tumor and the pathological stage. Usually, the more malignant tumors with a lower degree of differentiation, the faster they develop and the worse the prognosis, such as hepatocellular carcinoma, small cell carcinoma of the lung, undifferentiated thyroid cancer, pancreatic cancer, etc.
In addition, if the patient has entered the stage of extensive infiltration and metastasis of the cancer when the disease is diagnosed, the treatment is relatively difficult, and even the opportunity for surgical treatment has been missed, even if there is a conservative radiotherapy and chemotherapy option, the patient's condition is difficult to control;
2. Treatment is a double-edged sword
It cannot be denied that most of the treatment methods for cancer are actually a double-edged sword, and they may also cause physical damage while killing cancer cells. For example, surgery can cause physical trauma, and radiotherapy and chemotherapy will have certain side effects.
Especially after starting chemotherapy, some patients will have obvious side effects, including gastrointestinal reactions, hair loss, bone marrow suppression, decreased immune function, etc., which will make patients look weaker, so that family members and patients mistakenly believe that this is the result of ineffective treatment.
In fact, the side effects of chemoradiation are short-lived, and after stopping chemoradiation for a period of time, the side effects will disappear;
3. Excessive medical treatment
This is also the most common clinical problem, after all, there is a threat of death behind cancer, so many patients will ask doctors to try their best to treat themselves, force chemotherapy under conditions that do not meet chemotherapy conditions, or blindly try various new drugs, new treatment methods, forced surgery and so on.
These overtreatments are actually overdrawing the body's immunity, making the body more and more fragile, and may even promote the further development of cancer.
All in all, the more cancer patients are treated, the worse the effect, not because of the treatment itself, but because of the specific stage and pathological type of cancer, the patient's physical fitness, whether the treatment method is appropriate, etc., and the treatment itself has nothing to do with it.
On the contrary, if everyone credulously believes all kinds of rumors about cancer treatment and blindly abandons scientific treatment methods, there are only two words waiting for patients: death. Therefore, after the diagnosis of cancer, actively cooperate with the doctor for treatment, which is the most important.