Cancer can't be cured, why is chemotherapy recommended?

Cancer is difficult to cure, but it is not incurable. Cancer is not a dead end. As early as 1980s, the World Health Organization (WHO) put forward three viewpoints of 1/3, namely, 1/3 cancer can be prevented, 1/3 cancer can be cured, and 1/3 cancer can improve the quality of life and prolong life.

It can be affirmed that chemotherapy (including radiotherapy) is not the best treatment for cancer in terms of the current medical level and human cognition of cancer, but it is an effective and even very dependent means. More accurately, it can be said that it is a helpless choice.

To tell the truth, many times our patients are "over-chemotherapy", which is of course related to our concepts, the requirements of patients and their families, medical habits and other factors. However, excessive treatment (including radiotherapy and chemotherapy) is harmful to patients.

For a simple example, in contact with patients in developed countries such as Europe and the United States (many overseas cancer patients come to seek help from Chinese medicine), medical workers will find a problem: including breast cancer, gastric cancer, intestinal cancer, lung cancer and other diseases, the dose and course of chemotherapy received by foreign patients are far lower than those of similar patients in China, and some breast cancer patients do not do chemotherapy once, but what about us? Some as many as five or six times. To be honest, this is not necessarily "progress".

At the 26th International Breast Cancer Conference held in San Antonio, USA from June 5 to April 38, 2003, the participants suggested that breast cancer surgery should be changed from "maximum tolerance treatment" to "minimum effective treatment". Chemotherapy should be changed from large dose and long course of treatment to "optimal dose" and course of treatment; Radiotherapy has changed from traditional "Oto irradiation" to targeted "lobular irradiation".

Why do many experts advocate "less treatment"? Because this view is supported by data: WHO once conducted a survey: half of the drugs in the world are being used unreasonably, which is likely to lead to drug resistance and even death; Moreover, among the patients who died all over the world, 1/3 died not from the disease itself, but from unreasonable medication.

Cancer does not mean death. Cancer is terrible, but it's not what many people think-it's certain to die. Even if it is a very serious cancer, it is normal for patients to maintain a good attitude and actively treat it, which can prolong their lives and live a few more years.

As early as 2006, at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) held in Atlanta, USA, it was recognized as the world's top oncology academic conference. Drinking water and chatting for a while is not a common meeting as you understand it. In short, many professional data express an important message: cancer is not equal to death.

Cancer can be controlled and cured: it is a false proposition that cancer equals death, which is untenable. I would also like to remind you that for yourself and your family, please don't be deceived by this "false legend".

In fact, a new idea and proposition was put forward at this conference: instead of insisting on eliminating cancer cells and "radically curing" cancer cells, we should turn to more moderate "slowing down the growth rate of cancer cells" or "reducing the volume of cancer cells" to improve the quality of life of patients and prolong their time.

Maybe you will say that this is a negative practice, maybe you will think that this is the irresponsibility of medical practitioners, but I hope you can understand that this is a "delaying tactic", a rational and reasonable practice, and a practical consideration for patients at the current level of science and technology.

Cancer is just a chronic disease. Academician Sun Yan, a senior authority on oncology in China, once said: "For ordinary people, there will be more and more cancers in the future. Just like diabetes, it is just a common chronic disease of human beings. As long as prevention is strengthened, early detection and early treatment, new drugs are more and more accurate, and cancer is not so terrible. "

Here is a set of data for everyone, I hope you can get inspiration from it:

Shanghai medical research institute made a survey: the total number of cancer survivors was 1 34,000 (at the end of 2006), while the population in Shanghai was about136,800 (at the end of 2006), that is to say, there was1for every1000 cancer patients in Shanghai.

In the United States, according to the statistics of the American Cancer Society, there were 3 million cancer survivors in the 1970s, when the total population of the United States was less than 300 million. It can be seen that there are 1 survivor in every 30 people.

These two sets of data explain at least two problems: one is that some cancers can be cured slowly, and the other is that different people's concepts, ideologies, medical means and methods lead to different prognosis results.

In short, cancer is not as terrible as you think, and there is a chance to cure it. With the development of science and technology, maybe in the near future, people's attitude towards cancer is like diabetes: it's no big deal.

In addition, for cancer patients, radiotherapy and chemotherapy may not be the best treatment plan, but at the current medical level, it is still a practical choice, and of course it is also a helpless move. I hope everyone can look at this problem rationally and objectively.