There is naturally "inequality" between doctors and patients. The inequality I am talking about here refers to the asymmetry in medical professional knowledge. No matter how the patient or family members learn, the understanding of medical professional knowledge is always impossible to be as accurate as a professional doctor. Therefore, when doctors communicate, the doctor's words often have a significant and decisive impact on the patient: The doctor's words do not say a good word may cause the patient to lose hope of survival from now on. On the contrary, if the words are said well, they may save the patient's life.
I remember that many years ago, a middle-aged woman walked into the clinic in a depressed mood accompanied by her husband. After inquiry and communication, I learned that she came to me for the last time with her last hope. She said the local hospital said she had lymphoma and had multiple "metastases" throughout her body, which was already in the late stage.
According to her husband, she almost committed suicide and said she didn't want to drag down her family. Her husband persuaded her to come to a large hospital for a look. If the doctor in the large hospital also said that it was not cured in the late stage, then she would go home to arrange her funeral.
I learned that she did CT in a local hospital and found that there were many lymph nodes all over the body, , considering lymphoma. I told her: lymphoma can strive for " to cure "!
Next, further examination was arranged, and the pathology of biopsy was finally confirmed to be Hodgkin's lymphoma . This is a really good result!
Hodgkin's lymphoma is a highly curable cancer with a cure rate of more than 80% or 90%. Through standardized comprehensive treatment, the early cure rate usually exceeds 90%, and even in the late stage, at least 50% can survive for a long time.
If she did not have further examinations and just heard from the local hospital that it was late, she would not be cured. That would be a pity. It can be said that a doctor's words or even a few words determines the patient's life.
In addition to the Hodgkin lymphoma mentioned in this case, there are actually many cases where cancer is curable and controllable. Don’t think it is an incurable disease when you hear it. Even in the late stage, you cannot simply think that it cannot be treated and give up treatment. Otherwise, if you miss the opportunity, you will miss the opportunity forever.
Let’s see which cancers have a 5-year survival rate of more than 90%. I hope everyone can get some inspiration from it.
1, thyroid cancer
, among which thyroid papillary cancer , has a total 5-year survival rate of 99%, and is close to 100% in the early stage, and even in the late stage, the 5-year survival rate can reach more than 70%. Thyroid follicular cancer is similar, but it is a little bit worse. The overall 5-year relative survival rate can also reach 98%, the early stage can also be close to 100%, and the late stage 5-year survival rate is about 60%. Medullary thyroid carcinoma is slightly worse, with the overall relative survival rate of about 89%, which can also be close to 100% in the early stage, and decreases in the late stage, about 40%.
However, it should be noted that thyroid cancer is very poor undifferentiated, with the overall 5-year survival rate being only about 7%, which can be said to be both cold and fire. Fortunately, this kind of thyroid cancer is very rare. The total 5-year relative survival rate of
2 and breast cancer
The total 5-year relative survival rate can reach more than 90%, which is mainly because breast cancer is easy to detect early, while most of the early breast cancer can survive for a long time, with a 5-year survival rate as high as 99%, and about 86% in the middle stage, but if there is distant metastasis in the late stage, the 5-year survival rate is only about 30%. Therefore, early detection is really very important. The key is that as long as breast cancer is paid attention to, most of them can be detected early.
3, lymphoma
Lymphoma is divided into two categories: Hodgkin's lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma . The 5-year relative survival rate of Hodgkin lymphoma can reach 90%, and the early stage is even more than 95%, and even the 5-year survival rate can exceed 80% even in the late stage; non-Hodgkin lymphoma is generally worse, but the total 5-year relative survival rate can still reach more than 70%. However, the typing of non-Hodgkin lymphoma is too complicated, and statistics cannot reflect the real situation together. Some types have very good prognosis, while others are very poor.
4, urogenital tumor
mainly includes renal cancer , bladder cancer , prostate cancer and testicular cancer . The early 5-year survival rate of these cancers can reach more than 90%, among which the early 5-year survival rate of prostate cancer can be close to 100%. The survival rate of testicular cancer, especially semenoma , is also very high. Even in the advanced stage, about 70%-80% of patients can survive for a long time. However, if kidney cancer, bladder cancer and prostate cancer are advanced distant metastasis, the survival rate is not ideal.
5, digestive system tumor
overall is not very ideal, and the prognosis of gastric cancer , esophageal cancer, liver cancer cholangiocarcinoma cholangiocarcinoma pancreatic cancer, etc. is not very ideal, especially liver cancer, cholangiocarcinoma, pancreatic cancer survival rate is very low.
However, the early 5-year survival rate of colorectal cancer and gastrointestinal stromal tumors can exceed 90%, while the late stage is still not ideal. The 5-year survival rate of advanced colorectal cancer is only about 15-20%, so the key is early detection. In fact, colorectal cancer can still be detected early, and the key is to pay attention to early diagnosis and screening.
6, gynecological tumor
overall prognosis is pretty good, the worst one should be ovarian cancer (ovarian epithelial cancer). The main reason is that ovarian cancer is difficult to detect early, and most of them are late as soon as they are discovered. The 5-year survival rate of ovarian cancer in the early stage can exceed 90%, and the late stage is only about 30%, which seriously delays the hind legs. However, the 5-year survival rate of ovarian germ cell tumors and ovarian stromal tumors can reach more than 90%. Among other gynecological tumors, the 5-year survival rate of endometrial cancer is about 80%, which can exceed 90% in the early stage, but only 19% in the late stage; the total 5-year survival rate of cervical cancer is about 67%, which can be as high as 92% in the early stage, and below 20% in the late stage. The key is early detection, and cervical cancer can actually be detected early.
7, skin malignant tumors
includes skin basal cell carcinoma , skin squamous cell carcinoma, malignant melanoma. As long as tumors on the surface of the body are paid enough attention, most of them can be detected early by the naked eye. Early detection and early treatment can basically reach more than 90% of the early 5-year survival rate, and once there is distant metastasis in the late stage, the prognosis is poor. For example, the 5-year survival rate of advanced metastatic melanoma is only about 15%-20%, but now with immunotherapy for , the 5-year survival rate in the late stage should be further improved.
or above survival rate data, specifically in different countries, regions, and hospitals, due to the proportion of early patients (there are differences in popularity of early screening), diagnosis and treatment levels, and economic and social levels, not all of them can reach the above survival rate levels. They are for reference only.
