The same organ cancerous, almost the same cancer treatment methods, but some people have good treatment effects, even if they have not completely achieved clinical cure, but they can survive with tumors for a long time.
In some people, the disease is not only not controlled, but even within a few months, cancer cells begin to spread and metastasize to other organs, and the prognosis is extremely poor.
After this situation, many cancer patients will begin to despair, and even consider the feudal superstition, thinking that their fate is not good, and they are destined to die of cancer. But is this really the case? Under the same treatment, why can some cancer patients be cured, and some go to death?
1. Pathological type
Many people mistakenly believe that as long as the cancer occurs on the same organ, it is the same type of cancer. In fact, cancer, a disease, is only a general term for malignant tumors, and it has different pathological types in the clinic. Different types of cancer have different prognosis effects.
Thyroid cancer, for example, has both high-differentiated and non-differentiated cancerous forms. In general, the better the differentiation of cancer, the lower the degree of malignancy, the better the prognosis.
On the contrary, the more low-differentiated and undifferentiated cancer, the higher the degree of malignancy, the faster the spread, and the prognosis effect is extremely poor;
2. Pathological staging
In addition to the different types of pathologies, cancer development is also divided into several different stages, which are commonly known as the early, middle and late stages. Early cancer is manifested as carcinoma in situ and local invasive carcinoma, in this case, timely surgical treatment, combined with postoperative radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the patient's condition can be effectively controlled.
On the contrary, if it has entered the spread phase, even if surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy can be performed, it is often difficult to completely kill potentially metastatic cancer cells. These cancer cells are active in the body and eventually, within a few months, lead to a large spread of cancer cells;
3. Age and physique
If the patient's pathological stage and type are the same, but there are different treatment effects under the same treatment, this is mainly affected by the physical aspect. For example, patients are older, and after receiving radiotherapy and chemotherapy, there are obvious side effects and immune function becomes worse and worse.
Or the patient originally has other diseases, especially liver and kidney disease, cardiovascular disease, etc., which will have an impact on the treatment effect of cancer, in the case of the patient's extreme weakness, the speed of cancer cell development will accelerate, and eventually to the point of uncontrollable;
4. Nursing
It cannot be denied that any treatment for cancer is actually a double-edged sword, and while killing cancer cells, they will also induce various side effects, especially the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
If the patient's post-treatment care is not in place, such as nutrition is not followed up, long-term emotional pessimism and depression, the original bad habits are not quit, appropriate activities are not carried out, etc., this will have a more or less impact on the prognosis.
All in all, the therapeutic effect of cancer is related to many factors, and we cannot blame the treatment and doctors. It should be known that the purpose of treatment is to control the development of cancer and improve the survival and quality of life of patients.
Therefore, after being diagnosed with cancer, patients should fully trust the doctor and actively cooperate with the doctor to start comprehensive treatment and care, only in this way can there be hope of defeating cancer.