Cancer has been 20 years the people of the first ten leading causes of death, cancer really higher than the high blood pressure, diabetes frightening?
And a letter Cancer Center Hospital, said Andrew Huang, to return to Taiwan to engage in cancer treatment over the years have deep feelings, the general lack of understanding of cancer, a lot of people talking about the mere mention cancer that cancer is an incurable disease than heart disease, pneumonia is more serious .
In fact, he said, most of the cancer is curable if early cancer early correct diagnosis, early treatment, the cure rate of up to 90%, while about 15% of pneumonia mortality.
Like breast cancer cure rate is zero-phase 95%, testicular cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma, such as the average five-year survival rate as high as 90 percent, while people often suffering from nasopharyngeal carcinoma, even the third, four patients there are 60 to 70 percent cure rate.
On the road in the fight against cancer, the cure rate is now not only the improvement of North Korea should be more active to reduce the incidence of cancer efforts.
Andrew Huang emphasized that awareness of cancer, there is a need from the public education. In the United States, the beginning of education from primary school children on how to anti-cancer life. Therefore, the United States over the past 10 years not only to reduce cancer mortality, even the incidence rate also fell, Taipei Mackay Memorial Hospital Blood, director of oncology, said Hsieh Jui-Kun. The following is a general misconception of cancer often:
1. High technology panic and optimism can be cancer?
In fact, so far, there is no scientific evidence has shown that positive and optimistic attitude can directly improve the cure rate of cancer.
However, positive and optimistic can improve the quality of life of cancer patients, when patients have more vitality, more energy and around friends and family have a good social interaction, because no one likes and the people moan and groan together. And good personal interaction will give patients the feeling of happiness as well as the fight against cancer the driving force.
"But optimism is not naive optimism, but their condition has a considerable degree of understanding, be sure of optimism, because of ignorance will make mistakes," done in bone marrow transplant, was hospitalized in Taipei Veterans General Hospital for treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia who Mr Lee said.
He is a leukemia patient, poor immunity, a little cold may take away life, so he must learn to actively prevent colds. Mr. Lee said with emotion, "have witnessed many patients die of cancer is not, but died of infection."
Patients to be responsible for their understanding of their acceptance of what kind of treatment, illness and personal attention to matters of life and can not shift the responsibility delivered to doctors, relatives, because no one can follow you 24 hours.
2. Undergoing chemotherapy, rather to die?
I heard a lot of people do chemotherapy, immediately thought might spit a half, the treatment process will be very painful, it is necessary to be a cancer fighter in order to overcome the cancer and so on ... ....
But in fact, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, director of hematologic malignancies Chen said that now undergoing chemotherapy, no longer need so tragic, and show the courage to die. Because the medical community the concept of cancer treatment on a large change in the past, "because you should be cured, you have to bear for bearance." Now the priority is that patients can not tolerate. In other words, to minimize the suffering of patients, the cure of the patient, instead of "effective drugs" like.
Coupled with the fact that there are many anti-cancer drugs can minimize the side effects of drugs, such as injection needle Antiemetics can suppress vomiting, but not taste, the issue of loss of appetite, there are liquid nutritional food to eat and so on.
3.Use medical information from others?
Checked out from the beginning of cancer, who would have been told the cancer patients, "I know so-and-so, but also like you had cancer, people eat formula physician, not an injection-free surgery, chemotherapy will not well ... ... "Taiwan is currently about 40,000 more than the cancer patients, but the cancer cure rate in Taiwan than the United States is also low, the case can be cured of the first phase of breast cancer, the United States can have 60% cure rate However, Taiwan has only 15 ~ 20%.
In fact, Taiwan's mainstream medicine to treat cancer of the method and the United States is not much difference, but there is great difference lies in the patients.
Because 42 percent of cancer patients in Taiwan, even if the body has already found error, in the early disease is among the first to seek remedy, rather than the regular medical care, false hopes, "eat today, tomorrow we will be able to cure cancer," the early delay treatment time is gold.
On the prescriptions of patients with high hopes, and finally not only for his condition to deteriorate, but also failed to adjust the mind, often not properly prepared for life and death below.
Any new cancer therapy or the development of new drugs, with an average spend 5 to 10 years time, long-term use of the scientific method to prove their clinical effects, can be formally approved.
However, many without a scientifically proven efficacy and toxicity of the remedy rashly use in cancer patients, not only wronged spend a lot of money, but also in prescriptions toxicity and side effects are unclear circumstances, but have to bear the adverse consequences.
4. Today's medical technology can detect all cancers early?
Some cancers, like cervical cancer, breast and colorectal cancer, so regular screening can be early detection, early treatment and reduce mortality. But not all cancers can be detected early? Current medical technology can not be promised.
Now it can detect cancer, at least to some extent size. To breast cancer as an example, when found to have breast lumps, the cancer cells in the body may be 4 to 6 years.
5. To receive cancer treatment is tantamount to leave the family, give up their jobs?
Most cancer patients in outpatient treatment, so the day will be able to return, do not have to stay, nor to be a long time to leave work units, many patients can continue to work. Because, like the antiemetic, such as anti-cancer drugs to reduce side effects start to appear to help patients as much as possible without affecting the rest of the original life circumstances, for treatment.
6. People cancer pain?
Not all cancers are caused by pain. Most of the pain only when the cancer will occur, but experienced doctors in the care that can be used painkillers or-controlled analgesia used to relieve pain. The medical community there is a consensus, the patient to minimize pain, pain control is the first consideration, rather than the past, fear of patient addiction to painkillers and told to bear the pain of patients survive.
7. Acceptable cancer surgery will be transferred from them?
Some cancer patients do not want to remove the tumor, fearing the residual cancer cells will be to accelerate the transfer to other parts of the body.
Mayo Medical Center, pointed out that there is indeed a study found that removal of large tumor removed at the same time can inhibit tumor growth distant endothelin (endostatin), but it can not give up surgery because the tumor has not shifted, the Surgical excision is often the most effective eradication of the way cancer cells.
Cancer Center and Hospital in a letter Andrew Huang believes that, for some cancer treatment, surgery is still the main axis, and many auxiliary chemotherapy or radiation therapy is to prevent or early transfer or suppress the growth of cancer cells. If your doctor has weighed the pros and cons of surgery to assess the need for an operation, it should not have too many irrational fears.
8. The same cancer the same drugs can be used to govern?
When you see and you suffer the same as other cancer patients, the restoration of more than Hello, often think that "The doctor gave him the medicine is not better," shaken the confidence of the current treatment, he would like to replace with the same drug.
However, "the success of a case, does not mean that he used in therapy is the best, can only say that is just therapy for him, but would be suitable for other people, there are many other factors to consider," Taipei's Mackay Memorial Hospital Hsieh Jui-Kun Physicians said.
He pointed out that the cancer drug is varies from person to person. For example, liver and kidney function every person is different affordable drugs will not the same. And even if cancer is the same, because different stages of cancer, malignant degrees are not the same, it does not seem to be the same medication.
9. Cancer contagious?
You will not get access to cancer patients and cancer. When you get close to the patient, and do not seek to increase your own cancer risk. However, your company can heal the hearts of cancer patients, depression, loneliness and feeling helpless.
However, if you want to go to the hospital to visit cancer patients should pay attention to whether their flu or other infectious diseases, if any, is strictly prohibited visits, so as not to allow patients to be infected with other diseases. Cancer wards and not to have flowers, potted plants, into the wards should wash their hands before.
10. The higher the success rate of treatment more effective?
"A certain anti-cancer drugs, a success rate of 90 percent," "a certain anti-cancer products in animal experiments can kill more than 95% of cancer cells," and so on from time to time reported in the media, but these new drugs or anti-cancer product will really be the savior of cancer patients?
Major hospitals have recently warned that the discovery of unidentified persons to the cancer patients in the hospital claimed to have anti-cancer effect of selling products, walk in the health food and medicine gray areas.
In addition to the market anti-cancer products, even large pharmaceutical companies to launch anti-cancer drugs, you also need a reasonable doubt their curative effect as claimed. While the figures will speak, but "90 percent success rate," the study report, is often reported cases of selective made beautiful data.
The truth is most of the 50 people took part in a anti-cancer drugs test, after 4 months of treatment, 20 were completed tests, of which 18 were in good effect. Statistical results, the only drug used in 20 of 18 effective, and deliberately ignored the pilot was unable to complete the 30 people, they may be ineffective or the side effects of treatment are too big and out of the pilot.
In addition, people in the streets common to "a certain ingredient in animal experiments inhibit tumor size more than 90%" to flaunt have anti-cancer efficacy of products, only in the animal experiment stage effective, does not mean that people will also be used in an effective, the most well-known example is the shark cartilage.
Shark cartilage cells in vitro preliminary tests found that indeed can inhibit cancer cell growth. But that argument through the news media, advertising and other promotional activities to promote the big shark cartilage Hot related products. However, in 1997, American Society of Clinical Oncology published the first report of shark cartilage clinical trial found that patients without any complete or partial remission, meaning that there is no effect, but also the patient's quality of life has not improved. At the end of 1999, the U.S. FDA calls for an end to "anti-cancer shark cartilage products can be" false advertising. In June 2000, the United States Federal Trade Commission also ruled that in addition to the prohibition of false propaganda, the relevant decision makers had to pay one million U.S. dollars fee, of which 450,000 U.S. dollars to the U.S. National Cancer Center and related units in large-scale clinical trials, to test shark cartilage in the body's anti-cancer effect. So the face of anti-cancer medicine News reported, it is necessary to pay attention to whether the research findings published in the internationally renowned journals, the number of people who participate in clinical trials, tracking how long time.
"Any claims to have anti-cancer drug efficacy have been rigorous clinical trials to prove that, otherwise, only a void of hope," Taipei's Mackay Memorial Dr. Hsieh Jui-Kun said.
In the treatment of cancer, doctors and patients had to do homework. Doctors to spend time to lift the absolute suspected flu patients, so that patients have the opportunity to participate in the decision. In addition to the patients to seek further consultation and listen to the views of other doctors, but also to absorb the correct knowledge of their illness have a certain degree of understanding, do not listen to a whisper at random to be in the treatment of their own best interests.
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