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Chemotherapy is one of the effective means of treating cancer, but nowadays, as the side effects of chemotherapy become more and more known to the public, a saying has begun to slowly circulate that chemotherapy is harmful! People who are fine will be killed by chemotherapy, so is chemotherapy a life-saving medicine or a poison that harms people? In this regard, we can scientifically understand chemotherapy through Xiao Qin's example.
In Hubei in May 2019, 22-year-old Xiao Qin, who was going to college, found that he began to have bleeding gums, Xiao Qin ate hot pot with his classmates, and felt a little rusty smell in his mouth after eating, at that time he only felt that the food was too hot, Xiao Qin rinsed his mouth, and didn't think much about it, and returned to the dormitory, with a large mouthful of bloody saliva in his mouth, Xiao Qin felt that he was on fire, and bought a watermelon cream spray, wanting to relieve the symptoms of fire, and also wanted to prevent the occurrence of his mouth ulcers.
The next morning, Xiao Qin did not feel any discomfort in his mouth, but there was an obvious smell of blood in his mouth, Xiao Qin immediately got up and rinsed his mouth with mouthwash, rinsed away the bloody smell and began to brush his teeth, and found that the toothpaste foam he spit out was also stained with blood, and the gums bleed again during the brushing process, Xiao Qin didn't dare to brush his teeth hard, and after some tossing, he slowly stopped the bleeding.
Xiao Qin bought some honeysuckle granules to drink, trying to relieve the symptoms of fire, but a week passed, the bleeding gums still did not stop, from time to time Xiao Qin's mouth began to have a bloody smell, as time passed, the slow bad breath was obvious, so that Xiao Qin sometimes did not dare to speak, for this reason Xiao Qin also specially bought a mouth freshener, often sprayed to cover up the odor in the mouth, but it was not possible to use this spray all the time, and finally Xiao Qin went to the dental hospital to find out what was wrong with the mouth.
The doctor told Xiao Qin that his gums were bleeding severely, it was possible that there was calculus on his teeth, and the calculus had been irritating the gums, causing inflammation of the gums, which led to bleeding gums, and if he did not pay attention to it, there might be gum recession and periodontitis.
Then Xiao Qin listened to the doctor's arrangement and thoroughly cleaned the calculus, and a lot of blood oozed out of the gums during the scaling process. The doctor told Xiao Qin that this was because the calculus was removed, and the bleeding caused by the exposed gums was aggravated, which was temporary and would be relieved in two days. However, Xiao Qin found that after a week or two of cleaning, there was still frequent bleeding in the mouth, and the doctor recommended Xiao Qin to do a thorough periodontal care.
Xiao Qin thought that the impact of bleeding was not very big now, so he didn't want to spend more money on treatment, three weeks later, Xiao Qin didn't pay attention to keeping warm when running, and felt that he had a cold, and then began to have systemic pain, and the knee and ankle pain in both legs was more serious, Xiao Qin couldn't stand the pain, so he went to the hospital for relevant examinations.
The results of the examination found that the lymph nodes on both sides of Xiao Qin's neck were swollen, and there were 4 or 5 lymph nodes on both sides that showed abnormalities, with a diameter of about 1 to 1.5 cm, and there was no tenderness when touched, and when Xiao Qin's sternum was touched, it was found that Xiao Qin felt obvious tenderness, and Xiao Qin's double manic joints were also swollen and tender, and through Xiao Qin's gum bleeding and small blood spots on the skin, the doctor had a bad conjecture.
Then the doctor asked Xiao Qin to do a laboratory examination, and the results showed that Hb98g/L, RBC2.5*10^12/L, WBC24.0*10^9/L, PLT82*10^9/L, N13.8%, L76.2%, M10.0%, and saw a large number of naïve lymphocytes, and the bone marrow examination results found that the original lymphocytes accounted for 35%, and the doctor told Xiao Qin that he had acute lymphoblastic leukemia according to a series of examination results.
The doctor told Xiao Qin that there are many causes of leukemia, which are related to biological factors, chemical factors, physical factors, and so on, and that the common group of people with leukemia is young and middle-aged, although there are only three to five people who are generally sick out of 100,000 people, but it is very unfortunate that Xiao Qin is this unfortunate person.
Xiao Qin's frequent gum bleeding is not mainly due to the stimulation of dental calculus, but caused by his own thrombocytopenia and leukemia cell infiltration, which also makes Xiao Qin's skin have dark red tiny bleeding spots, and also causes lymph node swelling, fever and joint pain in Xiao Qin's neck.
The doctor told Xiao Qin that he needed to receive treatment as soon as possible to avoid missing the best time for treatment, Xiao Qin told his parents the news, and his parents immediately rushed to the hospital, and the doctor explained Xiao Qin's situation to them, saying that Xiao Qin now needs to be treated with chemical drugs immediately, but Xiao Qin's parents disagreed after hearing that they were going to receive chemotherapy, they said that one of their relatives was doing chemotherapy for stomach cancer, not only did not cure the disease, but also made people look like ghosts and ghosts, and finally made the consequences of personal wealth.
The doctor told Xiao Qin's parents that chemotherapy can be completely cured in the face of leukemia, a malignant tumor disease with abnormal hematopoietic system, because the blood system is more sensitive to chemotherapy chemical drugs, so it is very necessary to use chemotherapy in Xiao Qin's case, and they will also treat the possible side effects symptomatically according to Xiao Qin's condition.
Xiao Qin's parents agreed, and then the doctor treated Xiao Qin with vincristine, harringtonine and other drugs, and used anti-infective drugs to prevent Xiao Qin's infection, and also asked Xiao Qin to drink more water, and gave purinol to inhibit the synthesis of uric acid, after 6 times of chemotherapy, Xiao Qin felt that people became mentally The doctor announced that Xiao Qin's anti-cancer was successful, and it would be good to pay attention to the reexamination in the future.
Xiao Qin's parents asked the doctor: Why did their relatives have no effect on chemotherapy for half a day, but Xiao Qin had a remarkable effect on chemotherapy? The doctor replied: Chemotherapy is a double-edged sword, we must know how to use it rationally, if the patient has the following four conditions, then chemotherapy must not be used!
For early-stage cancer patients, such patients often only need simple surgery to remove the lesion, and then use radiotherapy to control it to prevent the residue of resection, if chemotherapy will not only be time-consuming and laborious, but also easy to lead to poor physical condition, weakened immunity, and will also waste a lot of money.
Chemotherapy-insensitive tumors, hematological tumor diseases are very sensitive to chemotherapy drugs, so the use of chemotherapy will have twice the effect with half the effort, but if it is some gastrointestinal stromal tumors, clear cell tumors and other tumors that are not sensitive to chemotherapy drugs, then the efficacy of chemotherapy will be very poor, and even in some specific cases, chemotherapy will be completely ineffective.
For patients with severe diseases, the side effects of chemotherapy are often greater than its own efficacy, and the patient's body is already very weak and cannot withstand the side effects of chemotherapy drugs. For such patients, doctors should adopt a gentle treatment regimen to protect the weakened body and at the same time kill the proliferating cancer cells.
Patients with end-stage cancer, although such patients can control the growth of cancer cells through chemotherapy, but it is often too late, the body has been crumbling because of the ravages of cancer cells, the efficacy of chemotherapy is also a drop in the bucket, and it will also bring extremely serious side effects and burdens to the body.