1.2 million injections of the "anti-cancer drug" on the market, is it really effective? Oncologists responded for the first time

at the beginning of June

anti-cancer drug has been quietly listed

_spanspan_strong_strong_span_strong It was approved by NMPA and became the first CAR-T therapy to be marketed in China. It can treat cancer by injection alone, which has attracted a lot of attention.

Just a few days ago, Aunt Chen, who suffered from " diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) ", was formally discharged from the Department of Hematology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine. The first patient in China to receive CAR-T , and was evaluated as complete relief of symptoms after treatment .

It took only two months from the time Aunt Chen received CAR-T treatment to the elimination of all cancer cells in the body . Many anti-cancer patients were surprised to hear this news. But soon, the surprise hadn't ended yet, and another piece of news made it to the hot list.

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Aunt Chen’s treatment receipt voucher is published on the Internet, and the bill shows: Akilunza injection is priced at 1.2 million yuan/bag (about 68ml),Together with other supporting treatment costs, the total price is nearly 2 million.

Source: Internet

68ml syrup is priced at 1.2 million. Many netizens said that "the poorer disease is harder to treat than cancer", and some patients questioned "Can cancer be cured by injections?"

"anti-cancer drug"

Why is there such a magical effect?

Faced with these questions, “ Henan Provincial Tumor Hospital Director of Immunity Treatment Department-Gao Li” in the top three cancer hospitals responded that “” contains hundreds of millions of active immune cells, which is effective for some cancers. Cells may be cleared, mainly for some leukemias, lymphoma and multiple myeloma. It has a very good effect. ”

Source: Douyin@河南民生 Channel大 Reference_ p7p

Aunt Chen chose CAR-T therapy when she was desperate, and cleared the cancer cells home in two months. Apart from Aunt Chen, the first patient in the world to receive CAR-T therapy has survived 9 years without cancer. Is a 12-year-old girl with leukemia (Emily Whitehead), has been recovering from CAR-T treatment in 2012 for nine years.

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CAR-T therapy is undoubtedly the most significant breakthrough in cancer treatment in China this year.But the sky-high price of 1.2 million can only be prohibitive for most patients.

In addition to the anti-cancer drug

, there are good ways to improve the survival rate of cancer patients

The cost of treatment for most people is not as high as the cost of

Early prevention and early screening can really kill cancer in the cradle.

For patients who have been diagnosed, it is more important to maintain a healthy and good attitude to fight tumors.

According to the survey data of the World Health Organization: The 5-year survival rate of Chinese cancer patients is only 40.5%, while the survival rate in these countries in North America can reach 82%. Why?

2018 World Health Organization "World Cancer Report" survey data

It has a lot to do with lifestyle medical management!

Lifestyle medical management is to adopt scientifically proven and effective lifestyle habits, such as healthy eating, proper exercise, smoking cessation and alcohol restriction, stress control, and sleep improvement, to prevent, treat and improve chronic diseases related to bad lifestyle habits.

tumor is a chronic disease, and it is also a metabolic disease .

For cancer patients, lifestyle medicine management is very important. Unlike traditional medicine, lifestyle medicine focuses on the prevention of chronic diseases (tumors are chronic diseases) and the consolidation of the rehabilitation period.

Especially patients who take therapeutic drugs at home (such as oral chemotherapy drugs or targeted drugs ) may bring corresponding discomfort to the body due to some adverse reactions of the drugs.

Currently, cancer patients have a high probability of recurrence in 3 years.Only by adhering to the first line of defense of “prevention is more important than treatment”, adjusting diet, having reasonable nutrition, avoiding the diet with known cancer risk factors, and developing a healthy lifestyle are the fundamentals.

At the same time, can be used to speed up the postoperative recovery of cancer patients, reduce complications, and smoothly survive the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy through . Improving the quality of life and prolonging life are the truly practical and low-cost anti-cancer drugs for ordinary tumor patients.

The treatment of cancer depends on both doctors and mentality; the treatment of cancer depends on drugs, but also on real-time supervision, real-time guidance and real-time correction of lifestyle medical management.

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