Tag: Radiotherapy

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Tumor metastasis is a difficulty in curing tumors, so can it be prevented?

Lord Wang has been very upset for a month and has been suffering from low back pain. Is it true that he twisted to his waist and suffered from lumbar muscle strain? I bought the activating collaterals oil wipe and plaster sticker myself. At first it was still useful, but it didn’t work long ago. Finally, I went to the hospital for a lumbar examination and took a magnetic resonance film. The results showed that there was tumor metastasis in the lumbar spine. Further systemic examination found a lump in the left lung, and the pathological results of puncture biopsy suggested lung cancer. The original lumbago that troubled Lord Wang turned out to be bone metastasis from lung cancer! What Read More …

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Doctor-patient Story: The Baldheaded Lymphoma Girl Keeping a Diary

In September 2014, I rotated the oncology department and was deeply impressed by a patient. In the patient’s own words, she is a [exotic] patient and a [exotic] case. When I took over, it was also the worst time for her illness. She was skinny and bald, and sometimes she smiled and showed two [bright] tiger teeth. Due to the continuous fever for nearly a month, her skin and sclera were yellow, and her pale face was sallow, like a haggard mud doll. If it weren’t for the pain, she would certainly still be a very beautiful girl. After all, she is only 23 years old and a newly graduated college student. Confirmed in February 2014, her life no longer Read More …

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Is there really no cure for advanced cancer? (2)

Editor’s Note: After refuting the statement that [advanced cancer is really incurable], this article provides some treatment methods for advanced cancer. Of course, according to the difference of family economic situation and outlook on life, when facing advanced cancer, patients and their families can decide whether to receive treatment and which treatment to receive according to the doctor’s advice. Systemic therapy-drug therapy is the main treatment for advanced cancer. Drug therapy includes chemotherapy, hormone therapy, targeted drug therapy, immunotherapy and drug therapy for bone metastases. 1. Chemotherapy is ineffective? That’s a rumor. Chemotherapy, There is still great curative effect in most advanced cancers. Although drug resistance often occurs in advanced cancers, However, chemotherapy is still the first choice for treatment. Read More …

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Is there really no cure for advanced cancer? (Part I)

What is advanced cancer? Cancer is at an advanced stage, Often implies that diversion has taken place, In a state of continuous progress and aggravation, Completely lose the hope of [radical cure]. The [radical cure] mentioned here, It refers to the clinical (naked eye, microscope, imaging) that the cancer focus in the body has been completely removed. Symptoms disappear completely. In fact, some tiny cancer foci may survive unknown until the cancer recurs. Advanced cancer does not necessarily mean metastasis and spread. For example, some intracranial malignant tumors, although not metastasized to organs other than the head, still belong to advanced stage. Cancer with metastasis and spread is not necessarily advanced cancer, such as some metastatic testicular cancer and thyroid Read More …

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If you have cancer, is there a way to save your life without treatment?

In the past ten years or so, when it comes to health problems that have troubled the whole people, many people think of cancer first, and the society is full of the smell of turning pale at the mention of cancer. Many people think that once a person gets cancer, he will be sentenced to death, and the word “incurable disease” has become a synonym for cancer. This is an extreme. With the development of anti-cancer therapy, most cancers have been well controlled after formal treatment, and even a small number of cancers have achieved [curative] effects. As a result, there is another optimism in the society that cancer can be easily [cured]. This is the other extreme. Unrealistic optimism Read More …