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According to statistics, there are about 3.804 million new cases of cancer in mainland China every year, and the annual cancer mortality rate is 12.84%, which means that one in every eight people dies of cancer. Therefore, cancer has become an important cause of death that seriously threatens the health of residents. Although the level of medical care is constantly improving, because most cancers are incurable, most people believe that having cancer is equivalent to being pronounced dead.
59-year-old Uncle Liu is a retired employee of a state-owned enterprise. Uncle Zhang's daily life is to tease the cat, walk the dog, and have nothing to do with friends for afternoon tea. The comfortable life makes Uncle Liu calm and unhurried, but recently something happened that made Uncle Liu distressed.
Here's the thing, Uncle Liu found that the number of times he urinated increased, which was not a big deal, anxiety in daily life, drinking more water, etc. would also lead to an increase in urine, but Uncle Liu because of the increase in nocturia, often go to sleep and be awakened by urine, tried not to drink water and tea before going to bed, urinate before going to bed and other operations, but the effect is not obvious, in the middle of the night three watches have to get up several times to relieve urine, and sleep poorly at night, resulting in poor spirits and fatigue the next day.
Such a day is miserable, Uncle Liu knows that he can't escape the common disease of men, prostatic hyperplasia, which involves male self-esteem, Uncle Liu is embarrassed to tell his wife that he plans to go to the hospital alone.
Prostatic hyperplasia is more common in men over 50 years old, and as we age, the level of androgens in the body is out of balance, resulting in prostatic hyperplasia, causing urethral stricture, and the storage of the bladder becomes smaller, and there are manifestations of urinary frequency, urgency, and nocturia. Therefore, drugs used to treat prostatic hyperplasia, such as 5α-reductase inhibitors, relieve discomfort by reducing the androgen content of the prostate gland and making the prostate smaller in size.
After understanding Uncle Liu's symptoms, the doctor gave Uncle Liu a digital rectal examination. Because the prostate gland is located close to the intestine, the doctor can feel the size and texture of the prostate through the anus and into the rectum. During the operation, the doctor felt that the prostate was relatively hard, and asked Uncle Liu if he had any tenderness, and when he saw that Uncle Liu answered no, he took off his gloves, and then told Uncle Liu to draw blood immediately.
Uncle Liu took the examination sheet and wondered why prostatic hyperplasia needed to have blood drawn, but with the trust of the doctor, he still went for an examination. After the results came out, Uncle Liu immediately took the examination report and the doctor checked it. But the doctor told him that it was most likely prostate cancer.
The news came like a bolt from the blue. Uncle Liu asked in disbelief: "I don't have prostatic hyperplasia, how can it be prostate cancer? Doctor, are you mistaken?" The doctor pointed to the PSA value on the report and told Uncle Liu: "This indicator is an early signal of prostate cancer, less than 4 in normal times, and your value has reached 12, which is highly suspected of prostate cancer." It was also suggested that Uncle Liu should be admitted to the hospital early for biopsy and puncture to determine the pathological type.
Grandma Liu saw that Uncle Liu had been in a state of distress since he came back from the hospital, so she pretended to be relaxed and asked, "What's wrong?" Isn't it just prostatic hyperplasia, and it's not a serious illness, so you don't need to be unhappy?" Uncle Liu was silent for a while, and said in a heavy tone, "My results today are not very good, the doctor said that I have a very high possibility of prostate cancer, let me be admitted to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible, if it is cancer, I don't want to treat it." After saying that, the two fell into silence together, and Grandma Liu broke the deadlock: "What do you say?
In fact, there are many people who talk about cancer discoloration like Uncle Liu. First, in everyone's perception, cancer is the most terrible disease, and a diagnosis of cancer is equivalent to death. The second reason is that although cancer can be treated, the cost of treatment is high, the burden on the family is large, and it is easy to recur, and at the same time, it also suffers great psychological and physical pain during the treatment period.
Under the persuasion of Grandma Liu, Uncle Liu finally chose to go to the hospital for biopsy and puncture. During the 3 days of waiting for the results, Uncle Liu had a premonition that he had prostate cancer, but Grandma Liu prayed all the time that it was benign. The results came back and I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. However, the good news is that this is a low-risk prostate cancer, the cancer is confined to the prostate capsule, does not metastasize, and the cure rate of prostatectomy is as high as 83.8%.
In this way, not all cancers are fatal, and those who get cancer are not necessarily fatal. Ph.D. students from the University of California, San Francisco, have made it clear that symptoms of low-risk cancer, low recurrence rate, and slow progression do not require excessive treatment and do not require excessive measures. In addition to this type of cancer, there are two other cancers that are not fatal or should not be called "cancers" and do not require overtreatment, which most people do not understand.
One is early-stage breast cancer
Breast cancer can be divided into various subtypes, and according to the patient's constitution, the subtypes of breast cancer also have different degrees of progression, and the cure rate also varies significantly. In fact, breast cancer is not as terrible as everyone thinks, and most of the patients are cured by more than 9 percent, and the probability of recurrence is relatively low, even if it is advanced breast cancer, there is a 50% probability of being cured.
The typical pathological symptoms in the early stage of breast cancer induction are breast lump hyperplasia, whether it is squeezed or massaged, it will produce a significant tingling sensation, so we can find out whether there is a lump in our breast by touching it in our life, and check whether the nipple is discharged. Timely treatment through self-examination and testing, in short, is early detection and early treatment, the better the prognosis.
The second is papillary thyroid cancer
Papillary thyroid cancer, also known as lazy cancer, is not defined as cancer because of the high rate of early cure and diagnosis of thyroid cancer. Most thyroid cancers are papillary cancers, which progress slowly and have a good prognosis. In addition, the cure rate of this cancer is as high as 78.9%, and under the guidance of doctors, through local surgical resection, the patient's condition will be improved, and the individual's diet will be indirectly regulated, and there will be no risk of recurrence.
Of course, although these two types of cancer have a high cure rate, there are some ways to prevent cancer in daily life.
The first is to develop good living habits
To stay away from cancer, you must have good lifestyle habits, and cancer prevention is actually very simple, so as not to smoke or drink. Smoking and drinking alcohol can trigger lung, laryngeal, liver or colorectal cancer. Choose healthy foods and beverages instead of foods that are high in fat, sugar, and calories. Eat a variety of vegetables, fruits, whole grains and legumes, avoid processed meats, and limit foods high in salt.
The second is to keep exercising and maintain a good attitude
Studies have shown that exercising and having a good mindset can prevent cancer. Exercise can not only enhance cardiopulmonary function, but also improve the body's immunity. In fact, the human body produces 10,000 cancer cells every day, and the occurrence of cancer is the weakening of the body's immune system, resulting in the inability of immune cells to eliminate cancer cells in time. And 1 in 9 patients with bowel cancer and breast cancer can prevent cancer by increasing the amount of exercise.