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April 15-21 is the National Cancer Awareness Week, which is a publicity day specially set up for cancer prevention and treatment in mainland China, aiming to improve the public's knowledge of cancer prevention and treatment, and correctly understand and actively prevent and control cancer.
The theme of the 2024 Publicity Week is "Comprehensive Policies, Scientific Cancer Prevention", actively advocating that everyone be the first person responsible for their own health, implement the principle of tertiary prevention of cancer, practice a healthy and civilized lifestyle, and take the initiative to participate in cancer prevention health examinations, so as to achieve early prevention, early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment.
1. The main factors leading to the occurrence of tumors are chemical factors, biological factors, radiation factors, genetic factors, etc., and most of the tumors are caused by unhealthy lifestyles to a large extent. Therefore, tumors can be prevented!
2. Tertiary preventive measures for malignant tumors
Primary prevention: to find out the cause, improve the body's ability to prevent cancer, and prevent the disease before it happens.
Secondary prevention: screening of precancerous patients or early cancer cases to achieve early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment; early detection is to find suspicious patients in the population through general investigation or screening, early diagnosis is to further confirm suspicious patients, and early treatment is to take "active, standardized and comprehensive" treatment measures for confirmed patients.
Tertiary prevention: For patients who have already developed cancer, reduce their complications, prevent disability, improve survival and recovery rates, and reduce the pain caused by cancer.
The whole society should actively pay attention to the problem of cancer, comprehensively understand the problem of cancer, prevent and control cancer in the whole cycle, and participate in the prevention and fight against cancer by the whole people, so as to improve the early diagnosis rate and survival rate of cancer, curb the harm of cancer, and effectively improve the health level of the whole people.
Source: Chengbei District Health Bureau