In my country, there are more than 4.5 million newly diagnosed cancer patients every year, and an average of 7 patients are diagnosed with cancer every minute. This is a set of numbers without any warmth, but behind it is the burden of countless families with heavy debts, fragmentedness, and lack of money and wealth. Cancer is the second largest factor in the death of illness in the world. It has extremely high mortality and incidence rates. There is currently no specific drug to cure it.
Moreover, the pre-cancer onset is very secretive and will not cause any trouble at all. When patients feel the problem, they usually enter the middle and late stages. However, some symptoms are very similar to ordinary inflammation, and they are dragged around and missed the best treatment period.
A patient with advanced cancer is in great pain. He not only bears endless physical cancer pain, but also has to undergo repeated economic and disease suppression, which leads to cachexia, causing further aggravation of the problem. If our family is unfortunately suffering from cancer, how should we choose? Should I just sell the trouble and try to treat it or let it go naturally?
relatives advanced cancer , treatment or giving up? This doctor's approach is worth learning
Dr. Zheng has been in medicine for 15 years and is a very well-known oncologist with rich clinical experience and helps many families get out of the predicament. But he never thought that one day his father became a cancer patient and his condition was so serious.
An inexplicable pain. Dr. Zheng took his father to the hospital for examination and was diagnosed with peritoneal malignant mesothelioma. This is a rare type of cancer with a very high deterioration rate. After entering the advanced stage, it spreads and metastases rapidly and attaches to other organs and tissues . Unfortunately, Dr. Zheng’s father has shown signs of metastasis.
I am a doctor myself. From the examination report, it can be seen that my father has lost the opportunity to operate. He has searched for many cutting-edge papers and experts, but the results are the same.
As a child’s selfish wish, naturally, I hope that my father will live for a few more years. But how could he bear it when he sees him in such pain? My father also said many times that he did not want to receive any treatment anymore, but just wanted to go back to his hometown to spend his last time. After a long thought, Dr. Zheng decided to let his father be discharged from the hospital and return to his hometown to improve his quality of life as much as possible, rather than taking various medicines, inserting various tubes, and lying on the bed and looking at the ceiling.
My father, who returned to his hometown, only took painkillers every day, took palliative treatment, and stayed away from the hospital. In such a depressing and painful environment, his mood gradually became brighter. In the end, Zheng's father persisted for one and a half years in the originally estimated survival time.
clinically more than 30% of advanced cancer patients have been diagnosed, regardless of their health, and they just want to treat the disease, but never think about saving people. These methods together have a huge impact on the spirit and body, and many elderly people are overwhelmed and die on the road to treatment.
How to treat patients with advanced cancer? Let’s mainly look at the following points. Do not blindly
Personal thoughts
Many people cannot decide their own life and death, especially China emphasizes the word filial piety, and is instilled with the concept of filial piety from childhood to adulthood. If your parents are sick, they will do their best. But everyone did not consider the pain of cancer patients in the face of treatment. They would rather have dignity to leave . People are independent individuals and have their own ideas. If their willingness to survive is strong, then their relatives are not qualified to give up. If they don’t want to waste time and money at all, and even reach a stage where it is difficult to treat, it is better to create a better diseased environment for them.
Depending on the patient's physical condition
A patients with advanced cancer need treatment, but the method depends on the personal physical condition. The treatment plan is mainly specialized based on the patient's age, condition, economic situation, and personal reasons, and cannot be completely one-size-fits-all. If side effects occur due to excessive treatment and excessive medical treatment in the overall process, and even a strong rejection reaction occurs, another way out is needed.
degree of disease development
cancer cells develop this situation, especially specific advanced cancers, once they infiltrate the bone marrow, tissues, joints, nerves, and organs, it will lead to multifunctional failure. In this case, doctors do not recommend treatment, but choose palliative therapy to extend the life cycle as much as possible and improve the quality of life, so that they are not so painful when leaving.
to the end
Cancer treatment advocates people-oriented, and excessive treatment may only add to pain. Cancer is not a terminal illness, nor is it a family disease. I hope everyone will pay attention to the health of the elderly.
