Ms. Wang, 45, was diagnosed with stomach cancer in early 2019, but fortunately, Ms. Wang's stomach cancer is still in its infancy, and after a series of scientific and effective treatments, Ms. Wang's stomach cancer has been clinically cured.
But the good times did not last long, at the beginning of this year, Ms. Wang suddenly felt serious discomfort in her stomach, and this discomfort was not only stomach pain, in life, Ms. Wang often felt fatigue, nausea, and her body was getting thinner and thinner day by day, at the suggestion of her husband, Ms. Wang went to the hospital for a comprehensive examination.
But the results of the examination made Ms. Wang fall into a collapse, because according to the examination results, Ms. Wang's stomach cancer recurred, which made Ms. Wang and her husband unacceptable, why did the cured cancer recur in just two years?
The doctor said that the reason why the cured cancer will recur again is mostly due to these three factors.
1. Incomplete surgical treatment
At present, surgery is the most common and effective treatment for any type of cancer in clinical practice.
However, for cancer patients, if the cancer cells are not completely removed during surgical treatment, some remaining young cancer cells may quickly wake up from dormancy, and then quickly fission, mutate, and eventually form new adult cancer cells. This is also the reason why many patients have been clinically cured, but still have cancer recurrence in just a few years.
In fact, this situation is unavoidable, because in the process of surgical removal, some cancer cells that cannot be detected by the naked eye are potential hidden dangers, so it is not foolproof that cancer cells can be removed from the surgery. This is usually explained to the patient by the doctor before the operation.
2. Immunity is too low
In fact, not all cancer patients are prone to cancer recurrence after being cured. Generally speaking, after being clinically cured, some cancer patients will not only actively take care of them, but also focus on improving their own resistance and immunity, which is also the key to preventing cancer recurrence.
However, some patients, because they often neglect the care of the body after surgery, their resistance and immunity may be particularly low, which will lead to the undetected young cancer cells in the patient's body are prone to genetic mutations, so as to grow and develop rapidly in the patient's body, and then lead to cancer recurrence.
3. No continued treatment
According to doctors, the condition of each cancer patient is different, so some cancer patients still need to receive treatment after surgery. In general, this treatment may continue for several years and will not stop until the cancer is completely free of chance of recurrence or metastasis.
Therefore, many patients do not continue treatment after surgery or this is the main reason why cancer is prone to recurrence.