Do you know? The terrifying cancer is not a disease that is only present in modern times. As early as the Song Dynasty's book "Renzhai to the Appendix Relics of Prescriptions" described cancer: "Cancer is high and deep, and the shape of caves is lingering..." It is not difficult to see from the records in the book that this is a description of the appearance characteristics of the tumor.
In my country, more than 3 million people die from cancer every year, and one person dies of cancer every four minutes on average. As more and more cancer patients appear around you, many people are worried about whether they can escape the clutches of cancer.
My grandmother passed away due to rectal cancer. When she found out, she had reached the late stage and had lung metastasis. She quickly left me. 5 years ago, my father had nasopharyngeal carcinoma again. Although he had met the clinical cure standard after treatment, the torture that my father suffered during treatment still scared me when he remembered it.
"Cancer Family History" is like a huge rock pressing on my heart, and I am very worried about whether I can spend the rest of my life safely.
"The Guardian of Life" is a doctor of biology at Tsinghua University, a new drug research and development scientist for tumor immunity , and has a very professional academic background. This is a popular science book about a brief history of cancer immunotherapy, which introduces the history and latest developments of immunotherapy in detail, and is suitable for those who want to understand the history of cancer immunotherapy development.
Before immunotherapy, the well-known cancer treatment methods were: surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and targeted therapy. I am a nurse and I have worked in gynecology, oncology surgery and operating rooms. From the perspective of a bystander, surgical treatment is indeed an effective tumor treatment measure, but for patients, their survival treatment will indeed be affected.
More than ten years ago, when I first started working, I met a patient with chemotherapy after ovarian cancer. Before she met her, she had already undergone resection and dissection surgery, but in order to kill the remaining cancer cells, she had to undergo several courses of chemotherapy. At that time, what impressed me the most was that every time I came for chemotherapy, it was like going through tribulation, and my body and mind were experiencing destruction. At that time, I was thinking, I wonder if anyone can't hold on to such a painful process, is there no better way?
Later, I went to the oncology surgery department and saw some patients who had removed some body organs due to cancer and rubbed their tubes all over their bodies. I know that this is just the beginning of cancer treatment, and they are about to face more complex follow-up treatments. If the situation is optimistic, just take the medicine on time and check it regularly after cutting. Patients who were found to have to be transferred to the Oncology Department for chemotherapy after removal.
Originally I was just a bystander of cancer treatment. It was not until my dad was unfortunately getting cancer. After participating in his entire treatment process, I really realized what cancer is for a person to go through.
When my father discovered it, he was already in advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma with metastasis. Fortunately, the metastasis only occurred near the tumor. Because the transfer has occurred, several rounds of chemotherapy have to be performed before radiotherapy. The chemotherapy drug 5 years ago has improved a lot compared to more than ten years ago. At the beginning, my dad just lost his hair and did not cause too much pain to his body. After the chemotherapy course was completed, he began to receive radiation therapy, which is what everyone knows about. It uses radiation to treat primary and metastatic lesions of tumors. What I didn't expect was that my father had a very strong reaction to radiotherapy and couldn't eat it and kept vomiting. Because of long-term vomiting, his esophagus was also damaged, causing edema and , and he was unable to eat. My face turned gray and black, and the ulceration of the skin on my neck caused by radiotherapy was shocking, and I felt it hurt when I looked at it.
4 months of treatment plus two months of conditioning is a long torment for my father and a torment for our family. I was worried about the treatment effect and whether my father's body could withstand the treatment method. We were lucky and finally waited for a good result.
When reading "The Guardian of Life", the book mentioned that in 2018, immunotherapy was officially introduced in China, and it was effective for cancers such as nasopharyngeal carcinoma. I just thought, if I could introduce immunotherapy as soon as possible, would my father suffer less? But anyway, this move means that our country's treatment of cancer has entered a new era, and now we have a completely new choice in the face of cancer.
If I hadn't encountered this book, I wouldn't know that scientists around the world have made such great efforts to overcome cancer. To cure cancer, they have gone through countless boring and unknown trial stages. During this period, we have to endure personal ridicule and blows. It is precisely because of their persistence that medicine will continue to improve and the treatment methods for diseases will continue to be optimized.
The emergence of each treatment method proves the achievements made by humans in the fight against cancer.
Whether it is surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy or targeted therapy, although there are some shortcomings, when they appear, they bring hope for life to patients. Now with the advancement of immunotherapy, I believe that in the near future, humans will usher in a new victory in the fight against cancer.
This book not only allowed me to see a new direction for cancer treatment, but also made the "Cancer Family History" that has been pressing in my heart for many years fall to the ground, and I no longer feel helpless. Cancer has entered a preventable era (such as cervical cancer vaccine ), so sooner or later, there will be better treatment methods. So no matter what the future ahead, there will be more and better choices to overcome cancer.
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