Many tumor patients, after suffering from tumors, often have doubts and chagrin - "Obviously after doing a physical examination, why do you still have cancer?" ”
So, do cancer patients who have recovered still need to undergo annual physical examinations?
We have a physical examination every year, why are we still diagnosed with cancer?
There is a real case around:
A 30-year-old young man, due to "poor sodium, emaciation for half a year" gastroscopy + CT, examination showed advanced stomach cancer. Previously, 8 months ago, the unit physical examination found mild anemia, and failed to find the cause of anemia.
Why was the diagnosis missed? On the one hand, the cause of anemia was not found; on the other hand, early gastric cancer, gastroscopy can only be found and confirmed, and the existing unit physical examination does not include gastroscopy items.
A regular physical examination is like a large sieve, first sifting out the "big stones", but the small stones may leak out.
The physical examination does not include all organs, and there is still a risk of tumors in untested organs.
The growth mode of tumor is divided into two types: explosive and occult, and early tumor patients in the insidious period of tumor growth are difficult to detect.
Tumors found by routine physical examination require further screening and judgment. Cancer prevention physical examinations are more targeted and can be detected earlier.
What cancers can be effectively screened for?
In fact, from the perspective of large classifications, there are dozens of cancers, and if you look at specific subtypes, there are hundreds of them. However, according to the clinical statistics given by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Preventive Medicine Working Group, of all cancers, only four cancers can be effectively screened, and others are often "missed" in the general physical examination.
Four cancers that can be effectively screened for:
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Breast cancer – With molybdenum screening, high-risk groups may consider adding MRI
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Cervical cancer – screened for cervical smear
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Lung cancer – low-dose spiral CT
04
Colorectal cancer – colonoscopy
Is the anti-cancer physical examination different from the regular physical examination?
The main purpose of routine examination is to find common diseases, while anti-cancer examination is mainly to find tumors early, generally basic physical examination + special screening.
Therefore, this point we should know: anti-cancer physical examination is generally aimed at high-risk groups and suspected cancer patients, such as tumor family history, elderly people (over 40 years old is recommended to start regular anti-cancer physical examination), long-term bad living habits, contact with carcinogenic factors of the population, has symptoms or examination of suspected cancer patients. Diabetics are also susceptible to cancer due to high blood sugar levels, resulting in low immunity.
So do people who recover from cancer still need to do anti-cancer physical examinations every year? Needed! Data surveys show that people who have had cancer in the past are 11 times more likely to have cancer again than healthy people, and many of them are second primary cancers. Routine re-examination, often only for the first primary cancer, may not be able to cover more primary cancer.
Especially suitable for your cancer prevention medical examination package, look over!
There are three main ways to look at the seemingly complex cancer prevention test: tumor marker detection, endoscopy and imaging. Benign tumors, inflammation, bad living habits, etc., will lead to the rise of some marker indicators, the need for doctors to analyze the tumor marker concentration exceeding the standard level, duration, indicators continue to rise, but also to jointly detect a variety of markers, according to the endoscopy and imaging examination to further clarify.
Experts remind that for high-risk groups of tumors or rehabilitation period management, it is recommended to "add meals" for special anti-cancer physical examination, people in areas with high incidence of tumors, people who often come into contact with carcinogens, people with a family history of malignant tumors, people with precancerous lesions and healthy people over 40 years old, should do at least one anti-cancer examination every year, and what to check depends on individual differences.
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