Advanced cancer is an incurable disease. Why do some doctors keep them in hospital?

Advanced cancer generally refers to patients with distant metastasis, which is commonly called stage IV tumor. For most advanced cancers, the therapeutic effect is not ideal, but it is not incurable. There are many techniques for tumor treatment, including surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy and so on.

After comprehensive treatment, patients with advanced cancer may also get very good treatment results. Take colorectal cancer as an example. After comprehensive treatment, the median survival time of patients with advanced cancer can reach 33 months, that is, nearly 3 years. Some patients can achieve long-term survival after surgery plus radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and even achieve radical cure. Therefore, not all advanced cancers are incurable. Whether treatment is needed and what treatment scheme to choose should be considered comprehensively according to the patient's condition and physical condition.

Assuming that there is really no cure and the life span is short, do you still need to be hospitalized?

Assuming that cancer, multiple organs of the whole body are generally metastasized, the body is weak, resistant to various treatments, and the life span is only two or three months, do such patients still need to be hospitalized? This is a comprehensive analysis. If the patient can eat and sleep without pain and other discomfort, then there is no need to be hospitalized.

If the patient can't eat, suffers from severe malnutrition and aches all over the body, he can be hospitalized, given nutritional support and enhanced nutrition, and also needs analgesic treatment to alleviate the pain of the patient. Therefore, hospitalization can also be considered in this case. In short, treatment and hospitalization are needed, and comprehensive evaluation is needed.

Science is constantly developing and progressing, and new drugs and treatments are constantly emerging. Many tumors that were previously incurable have now been cured. I remember when I was a child, there was a Japanese movie called Coagulation. At that time, there was no cure for leukemia, but now many leukemia patients can be cured. Therefore, terminal cancer is not terrible, just buy time, maybe tomorrow will be different. Time itself is the "good medicine" for cancer.