However, after years of practice, people have found that this method does more harm than good to cancer patients for the following reasons:
First, patients don't know the truth, but judging from the expressions of doctors, family members, relatives and friends, they will have doubts. This will not only reduce the mental burden of patients, but will increase their psychological pressure. In fact, they think that people in the metropolis are hiding something from him, and they guess that they must be terminally ill and terminally ill. Such doubts and conjectures can lead to anxiety, nervousness and depression. Such mental state is very harmful to patients.
Second, the people's education level has generally improved, and medical knowledge has been widely disseminated. Paper can't wrap fire, but you can't hide it if you want to. Patients will know their real illness sooner or later by observing the examinations they receive, the treatments they use, the drugs they take, the conversations with others, or the development of their illness. At that time, patients will lose trust in doctors, relatives and everyone. I feel critical and mentally accelerated. No comfort will help.
Third, due to people's fear of cancer, family members hide the truth from patients and avoid specialist hospitals going to other hospitals for treatment. Sometimes, they don't get the best treatment, and they lose precious treatment opportunities and cure opportunities. A young female patient found a lump with a diameter of 2 cm in her breast. She underwent mass resection in the outpatient department of a primary hospital, and was diagnosed as breast cancer by biopsy pathology. The family members are afraid that the patient can't bear the psychological blow, hide the condition, and lie to the patient that it is a benign lump and don't do further treatment. In fact, at this time, breast cancer is still in its early stage, and it can be cured by radiotherapy or radical surgery in the tumor hospital. A year later, the patient's breast tumor recurred, and then went to the hospital for examination and found that liver, lung and bone metastasis had occurred, and the hope of cure was slim. The patient complained very much about his family, and they also regretted it. The cost of concealing the patient's illness and delaying treatment is heavy. Whether it is to give up the best treatment to hide the illness and finally give up life, or to let patients experience short-term psychological pain, face the reality and actively treat and finally defeat cancer, it seems not difficult to weigh the pros and cons.
We advocate open treatment. However, the premise must first change the misconception that cancer is an incurable disease. Open treatment is not only beneficial to patients' psychological burden caused by unnecessary suspicion, but more importantly, it is beneficial to cancer patients to actively cooperate with treatment. For cancer patients, whether it is surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy, there will be some pain. In particular, radiotherapy and chemotherapy may have a certain degree of toxic and side effects, which requires the cooperation of doctors and patients to successfully complete the treatment as planned. Cancer patients passively accept treatment or even refuse treatment without knowing their condition. When open treatment is used. Doctors inform patients of their illness and treatment plans, and can publicly encourage patients with some examples of overcoming cancer and inspire their confidence in overcoming cancer. In this way, they will change from passive treatment to active and active participation in treatment. This will enable them to face up to the facts and enhance their determination to overcome difficulties. For example, if they can't eat, they will try to eat; Can't move. They will try to move and cooperate with the doctor to complete the treatment. Facts have proved that once patients have established their determination and ambition to survive and seek health, they will show amazing perseverance. Therefore, open treatment is beneficial to cancer patients.
For patients with different psychological qualities, at different stages of illness, the following methods can be used to deal with public diseases:
1. Patients who are cheerful and strong-willed, and patients who have good early curative effect of cancer, should be informed of their real condition as soon as possible, so that they can enter a state of active cooperation with treatment as soon as possible. For patients with fragile feelings and extremely sensitive spirits, we should be cautious and wait until the right time to let them know the real illness.
2. Patients should always see the hope of overcoming the disease. Let them know that cancer is not synonymous with death at present, encourage them with successful treatment cases, and let cured patients show themselves.
3. For the patients who are initially cured, let them know that cancer may recur and ask them to have regular check-ups. When the recurrent focus is found to be very small, there is still hope for treatment. This can prevent them from having a sudden psychological attack when they have a relapse, and they will not be careless enough to know that the recurrence is obvious and lose the chance of cure.
For patients with serious illness, don't tell the whole truth, lest they have a nervous breakdown. Special care should be given to dying patients, so that patients can feel that doctors are actively treating them and their families are actively trying to find ways for him.
When telling patients about their illness, both doctors and relatives and friends should be sincere, patient and enthusiastic, and give them sympathy, comfort and hope.
6. Sometimes, the psychological impact of cancer diagnosis on patients is greater than that of patients themselves. At this time, it is necessary for the patient's family to stabilize themselves first, calm down in front of the patient, and cooperate with the doctor for other psychotherapy.
At present, the comprehensive application of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy in tumor treatment has cured a large number of patients. It has become an obvious fact that cancer is not a terminal disease. However, as we all know, tumor treatment is a long "protracted war" and a "painful process" after all. Among all kinds of diseases, few give people great mental stress like tumors. Malignant tumor not only affects a person's normal life, but also harms his family. It not only destroys the normal function of the body, but also changes the image of the body and the role of patients in the family, aggravating the emotions of patients such as fear, doubt, anger, depression and despair. The trauma of operation and the toxic and side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy have caused great psychological and physical pain to tumor patients. Therefore, home care for cancer patients is particularly important.