Is chemotherapy saving or harming people? Let’s first listen to the opinions of netizens
@Qingfeng Mingyue: Mom Bladder cancer . I have accompanied her for more than 3 years of anti-cancer treatment, and she is always hospitalized for chemotherapy. My mother has been nauseous and vomiting every day, and she can’t eat anything. She lie on the hospital bed all day long to receive nutrient solution. Although chemotherapy has prolonged her life for several years, she has no quality of life. She suffers from life, and the final death is also free!
@networker 8856: Grandpa started eating dysphagia went to the hospital to diagnose esophageal cancer. The doctor said that radiotherapy and chemotherapy would last for three years, so we agreed. Unexpectedly, after only 5 months of chemotherapy, my grandpa was so weak that he was as thin as skin and bones. He could only rely on nutrient solution to maintain it. In the end, he left, which became a pain in the hearts of the whole family. Grandpa was cured alive. If it were not treated at the beginning, he would definitely have lived for a long time!
@Two butterflies: My friend is only 35 years old and has breast cancer . The doctor said to do chemotherapy first, so that the tumor will shrink and then the surgery will occur. As a result, the person disappeared after several chemotherapy sessions.
When it comes to chemotherapy, many people may think that chemotherapy is more terrifying than cancer itself, especially when they experience chemotherapy and then die. The pain is unbearable. Some people say that chemotherapy cannot cure cancer, which will make patients worse. What is the truth?
1. Chemotherapy cannot cure cancer, which makes the patient worse?
Everyone knows that chemotherapy is a means of treating cancer, but how does chemotherapy play a therapeutic effect? Chemotherapy is actually a systemic treatment that uses chemical drugs to fight malignant tumors.
In chemotherapy, the drug can quickly enter the human body and spread throughout the body. It can not only kill local tumor cells, but also tumor cells that are metastasized to distant places. Chemotherapy is better than surgery and radiotherapy, and can usually effectively improve the patient's five-year survival rate and prolong the patient's survival.
, Chief Physician of the Department of Gastroenterology, Peking University Cancer Hospital, Zhang Xiaotian, , introduced that chemotherapy has different effects on different types of cancer treatments. Some types of tumors are highly sensitive to chemotherapy, such as breast cancer, lymphoma , etc. The survival rate of patients with this type of tumor can be greatly improved after chemotherapy; and for tumors such as gastric cancer , which are moderately sensitive to chemotherapy, chemotherapy can effectively reduce the recurrence rate and prolong life.
2. What side effects will be there after chemotherapy and will it disappear?
Since chemotherapy is a systemic treatment, drugs may kill cancer cells while also killing normal cells. This is the side effects of what is commonly known as drugs. However, most of the side effects of chemotherapy are temporary and generally relieved after the chemotherapy is over. However, in some cases, it may also have long-term or even lifelong effects.
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Cancer Hospital Breast Surgeon Wang JingIntroduction to the fact that side effects that can be relieved after chemotherapy are usually called short-term side effects. Common short-term side effects include Hair loss , nausea and vomiting, oral ulcers, bone marrow suppression , etc. The extent and duration of these side effects depends on how chemotherapy drugs are used and the response measures taken. Do not panic when patients develop related symptoms, but should seek medical treatment as soon as possible.
The adverse effects that may continue after chemotherapy are over, usually called long-term side effects. The probability of long-term side effects is not high, and not every patient will. Common long-term side effects include infertility, osteoporosis, , heart damage, , etc. If there are symptoms of long-term side effects, you should go to the hospital in time and follow the doctor's instructions to treat it to reduce the impact of side effects.
3. How many times can cancer patients with chemotherapy?
As mentioned earlier, chemotherapy is a systemic treatment, so why can't chemotherapy be cured in one go, and it takes multiple cycles? This is because chemotherapy drugs follow the law of "first-order kinetics" to kill tumor cells, that is, use a certain amount of drugs to kill a certain amount of tumor cells.
Since cannot withstand too many drugs at a time, it requires multiple cycles of chemotherapy to kill more tumor cells and achieve better therapeutic effects. Some adverse reactions after chemotherapy usually occur 7-14 days after administration. If chemotherapy is performed at this time, it will aggravate the harm to the human body. Therefore, doctors generally use the treatment plan with two weeks apart, and the 1 days is a cycle of .
Deputy Director of the Precision Medicine Center of Huaihua Cancer Hospital He Shaohua explained that chemotherapy as a basic means of treating tumors cannot be used in large quantities and indefinitely. Due to tolerance and toxic side effects, patients usually can only withstand 6-8 chemotherapy sessions at each stage. Most patients will have to stop chemotherapy after more than 6 chemotherapy sessions because the toxicity of chemotherapy is unsustainable.
Chemotherapy is a treatment with side effects after all. Cancer patients spend money and suffer sin. How can they judge whether chemotherapy is effective?
4. How to judge whether chemotherapy is effective?
. Are the symptoms of the disease relieved?
The most direct manifestation of chemotherapy onset is the reduction of symptoms caused by tumors. For example, patients with lung tumors usually suffer from dysphagia due to compression of the esophagus. If chemotherapy works, the symptoms of dysphagia will be reduced. However, this is just an auxiliary method of judgment.
Do a simple and convenient blood test to know the changes in tumor markers before and after chemotherapy to determine whether chemotherapy is effective. The more tumor markers decrease after chemotherapy, the better the chemotherapy effect; if the level of tumor markers is in the normal range and does not float much, a comprehensive judgment is required in combination with other examinations.
. Have the tumors in the body shrunk?
After chemotherapy, B ultrasound , CT and other imaging examinations can be observed whether the tumor has become smaller and whether there are new tumors. Then, using RECIST ( solid tumor efficacy evaluation standard) as a reference to determine whether the disease has been relieved.
Because of lack of understanding of chemotherapy, many people have misunderstandings about chemotherapy. In fact, chemotherapy is not that scary, but a conventional and effective method of treating cancer. When you find something is wrong, go to a regular hospital in time and trust the doctor to cooperate with the treatment is the key to curing the disease. #Guarding the Silver Age World# #Jiu Zero Plan#
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