On the contrary, some patients obviously need chemotherapy, but the patients and their families strongly refuse it, which is wrong, and recurrence and metastasis are prone to occur after surgery.
Let me talk about which patients don't need chemotherapy:
First, early cancer does not require chemotherapy.
In the early stage of cancer, tumor cells only grow locally and will not spread far away. They only need to be removed without chemotherapy. For example, stage I and stage II colorectal cancer without high risk factors do not need chemotherapy after operation.
Second, tumors with unknown chemotherapy do not need chemotherapy.
Some tumors are not sensitive to chemotherapy at all. Your chemotherapy is useless, and you can't kill cancer cells at all. For example: differentiated thyroid cancer, liver cancer (systemic chemotherapy is useless), gastrointestinal stromal tumor and so on.
Third, patients with physical intolerance should not receive chemotherapy.
Patients who are too weak, have poor liver and kidney function and have severe bone marrow suppression are not allowed to undergo chemotherapy because their bodies can't stand it. Before chemotherapy, we all have a grading standard, and the physical condition must meet certain conditions before chemotherapy can be carried out.
Therefore, chemotherapy is a blessing for some patients, which can prolong life and relieve pain. For some patients, chemotherapy is a curse. Chemotherapy is unnecessary or unbearable.
Some patients are afraid of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, but for some patients, radiotherapy and chemotherapy is actually a very happy thing. Because radiotherapy and chemotherapy actually have a chance to save, if there is no chance of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, you should go home and wait for the end.
But not radiotherapy and chemotherapy can cure cancer. If there are no better measures to deal with radiotherapy and chemotherapy and reduce the side effects, the curative effect of chemotherapy will decline. So some people doubt whether chemotherapy is a harmful poison.
Does chemotherapy save lives or harm people?
It is also a "blessing" for cancer patients to receive chemotherapy.
There are four types of chemotherapy: alkylating agents (clobutanbarbital), plant alkaloids (actinomycin D), antimetabolites (purine antagonists) and antineoplastic antibiotics (adriamycin).
Chemotherapeutic drugs can spread all over the body after entering the human body, so whether cancer spreads or not, chemotherapy drugs can be used for treatment. The effects of chemotherapy are as follows:
1 inhibits the division of cancer cells.
2. Induce cancer cells to commit suicide
3, cut off the nutritional supply of cancer cells, mainly to cut off the enzymes and hormones needed by cancer cells.
4. Blocking the cardiovascular growth of tumor and "starving" cancer cells.
5. Cut off the blood and oxygen supply of cancer cells (there is still doubt in the medical field at present)
Chemotherapeutic drugs are similar, but everyone's physique is different, which leads to different reactions to chemotherapy, and local medical conditions will also affect the final treatment results.
Clinically, there are indeed many patients whose bones have obviously deteriorated after chemotherapy. This is because chemotherapy drugs sometimes "distinguish between the enemy and ourselves" and have a very strong impact on healthy cells, which leads to the side effects of chemotherapy.
When it comes to the side effects of chemotherapy, there are many cases, such as hair loss, nausea and vomiting, hearing loss, low resistance and anemia.
Chemotherapy is actually more about treating diseases and saving lives. We can find ways to solve a series of side effects brought by chemotherapy, such as adjusting dosage and changing medicine.
Treatment of side effects of chemotherapy
First, low resistance (low white blood cell count)
Chemotherapy will basically bring about the decline of human white blood cells, which will lead to the decline of human immunity. If the white blood cells do not rise, the effect of chemotherapy will be greatly reduced, or even counterproductive. Therefore, patients should increase the number of white blood cells in time:
Nutritional supplement: First of all, we should supplement selenium, vitamin E, carotene and other foods. These foods are essential nutrients to ensure the recovery of white blood cells. You can add some malt selenium and vitamin E tablets. This is a nutritional mixture, once a day in the morning and evening, to supplement the number of white blood cells and improve immunity. Of course, you can also eat some kiwi fruit, carrots, milk and so on.
Treatment of wound: If you accidentally graze, you need to disinfect it as soon as possible to prevent bacteria from entering the skin. Chemotherapy patients need immediate treatment once they become infected.
Second, anemia (low red blood cell content)
Red blood cells are responsible for releasing oxygen to body tissues. Low red blood cell content will lead to insufficient oxygen supply to tissues, and people will feel tired, short of breath, palpitations and anemia. If anemia is too severe, emergency blood transfusion may be needed. The medicine can be erythropoietin (EPO), which can promote the production of red blood cells.
In terms of food, you can eat more green leafy vegetables, beans, apricots, raisins and so on.
Third, bleeding (low platelet content)
That is, thrombocytopenia, platelets are used for coagulation. If the platelet content is insufficient, it may lead to abnormal coagulation function, such as nosebleeds and gingival bleeding. And generally the blood will not stop.
In order to reduce the risk of bleeding, it is necessary to minimize the use of razor blades and replace them with electric razors.
In the choice of toothbrush, try to choose a soft toothbrush. In life, be careful when using sharp objects, or it is best to wear gloves to prevent injury.
Chemotherapy can turn people upside down, with particularly serious side effects. This concept is wrong! Xiao Wenjia, director of the Second Department of Oncology, the Fifth People's Hospital of Shenyang, explains it for you.
Chemotherapy will only be used when necessary, and I trust the judgment of professional doctors in this regard.
Many patients and their families think that the dose of chemotherapy should be reduced. In fact, the dose intensity of chemotherapy is obviously related to the survival of patients. Insufficient dose can not only effectively treat cancer, but also reduce the survival time of patients, so the dose must be guaranteed.
"Falling down" and "letting go" are misunderstandings of patients and their families. In the process of treating cancer, new drugs emerge one after another, and the side effects are not as great as expected. Moreover, it is worthwhile for patients to face the side effects of chemotherapy in order to obtain long-term survival and wider benefits.
New drugs to deal with adverse reactions are also playing an increasingly important role.
Thirty or forty years ago, it was almost impossible for patients to vomit with a basin in their arms. There are many kinds of antiemetics. There are many choices of protective agents to protect gastric mucosa, heart, liver and kidney, and chemotherapy can achieve a smooth transition.
In addition to being biased against chemotherapy, some patients think that if they have cancer, they should eat less and starve cancer cells! This concept is also wrong!
The guarantee of nutrition is very important for patients.
However, eating good food will help cancer cells grow faster. It is generally believed that eating less or not will starve cancer cells.
In fact, only by ensuring adequate nutrition can chemotherapy and radiotherapy keep up, otherwise the individual will collapse before he overcomes cancer. The nutritional status can't keep up, and there is no effective treatment.
500 top three doctors, an online health think tank for you and your family! I am the founder of non-drug therapy in China. Is chemotherapy a blessing or a curse? This question is definitely controversial. We need to calm down and understand. Every time you have chemotherapy, you will know whether your state is good or not. I watched many videos of young people after chemotherapy, and I don't know what to say to them.
First of all, we have to figure out a question, is chemotherapy a cure or not? This should be obvious, that is, treating diseases, because its purpose is to kill cancer cells. There's nothing wrong with that. The mistake is that chemotherapy, as a means, not only kills cancer cells, but also kills our immunity. It can be said that it is unscrupulous. Although the effect we have seen is that cancer cells kill a lot, our only immune system has completely collapsed, and the consequences are unimaginable.
Different from taking antihypertensive drugs for hypertension, taking hypoglycemic drugs, antihypertensive drugs and hypoglycemic drugs for diabetes is also a temporary solution, but after all, it is mild, and chemotherapy drugs are extremely dangerous, so antihypertensive drugs and hypoglycemic drugs are similar to boiling frogs in warm water, which we don't think is so obvious, but chemotherapy is to boil frogs directly in exothermic water, which is obviously.
I have repeatedly called on a city in China to ban radiotherapy, chemotherapy, surgery and other anti-therapies for cancer patients on a pilot basis. I can guarantee that the cancer mortality rate in this city will drop by more than 40% immediately.
Chemotherapy is a blessing, but we need to make a careful analysis of specific patients. It involves both therapeutic effect and economic expenditure, so the individual's blessing and misfortune can be completely opposite to the overall blessing and misfortune.
Chemotherapy is an important means to fight tumor. Before chemotherapy, there is no treatment for all non-solid tumors, such as leukemia, and patients can only wait for death, and they really die soon.
Chemotherapy is used to treat tumors, starting with blood tumors, which is leukemia.
From waiting for death to having drugs to save or greatly prolong life, the reputation of chemotherapy has thus opened. At present, the treatment effect of leukemia is quite good, 90% patients can survive smoothly, while in the past, 100% will die soon. This difference cannot be exaggerated.
In the recent movie, imatinib (trade name Gleevec) mentioned in "You can't survive but you can't die" is a miraculous medicine for treating chronic myeloid leukemia. So, do you think chemotherapy is a blessing or a curse?
For a solid tumor, whether it can be operated depends on luck, because if the cancer has metastasized, even if it is operated, the cancer will soon recur in other parts of the body, and just like mushrooms, it is not one place, but many places. Surgical resection is impossible, and once it recurs, the patient will die soon. Later, radiotherapy was added, which was effective for some patients, but the effect was weak, which was largely related to people's lack of understanding of tumors at that time. Nowadays, the effect of radiotherapy has been improved and has become an important auxiliary means to treat some tumors. Radiotherapy has unique advantages even in body parts that cannot be used in surgery.
When chemotherapy became famous in the treatment of leukemia, pharmaceutical companies began to develop other drugs, trying to enter the treatment of solid tumors as an important auxiliary means to kill those tumors that have metastasized but have not really started to grow wildly. This treatment strategy has achieved good results in a variety of tumors, thus greatly prolonging the lives of many tumor patients, but there are still some obstacles, such as triple negative breast cancer, advanced lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and so on.
Let's expect better drugs to come out. And pray that you can afford these medicines.
Is chemotherapy a blessing or a curse? Why?
I'm afraid you need the client to really know the answer!
First, from the perspective of medicine and doctors, half a century ago, without chemotherapy drugs and programs, cancer patients could not get effective treatment and had to die. Now with chemotherapy drugs and mature programs, cancer patients have hope of life. Early cancer found in clinic in time, through surgery+radiotherapy and chemotherapy and other special means, part of it is completely cured, and there is no cancer. Obviously, this kind of chemotherapy is definitely a blessing!
Let's not say that many celebrities in the world have cancer and have been cured by systematic chemotherapy.
I have treated many cancer patients clinically, such as early lung cancer and breast cancer. At present, more than ten years have passed and there is no recurrence. They are all alive and well! I can't help saying "blessing".
Second, from the point of view of patients and their families, except for a few cancer patients, clinical effects have been achieved through surgery+radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Most cancer patients, for one reason or another, such as being found too late, giving up because they can't tolerate chemotherapy, and the economic conditions can't keep up, leading to unsatisfactory or even failure of chemotherapy treatment.
At most, it is to improve the quality of life of patients and prolong their survival time.
Especially for the family members of patients, when their loved ones have passed away because of cancer, calm down and think carefully. Money is spent, people are suffering, and people are gone. Everyone thinks that chemotherapy is worthless. Chemotherapy is a curse.
I often meet some family members of former patients in the street. Months and years have passed, and they have come out of that state of tension, anxiety, pain, helplessness, and even madness and irrationality. Listen to their opinions again. They all think that chemotherapy was not a wise move at the beginning. Perhaps, without chemotherapy, relatives will live longer.
Obviously, is chemotherapy a blessing or a curse? Clinically, in life, there is no standard and unique answer! Only specific problems can be analyzed and solved.
Suggestion-Patients, family members and oncologists should make a scientific and reasonable plan together on the premise of seeking truth from facts, rationality and understanding.
Objection-doctors make their own decisions, family members interfere too much, and patients are confused.
I am especially opposed to "curing" a cancer patient with folk remedies. As a result, thousands of cancer patients flocked to this "imperial doctor" to seek remedies. In the end, it was just a mistake!
Any kind of treatment will have its value, otherwise it will have been eliminated long ago.
Chemotherapy, as a lethal treatment, still plays an irreplaceable role, and because of its great side effects, it will bring some collateral damage to patients in the treatment process, so it is often questioned. However, as an important means in the field of human anti-tumor treatment, the advent of chemotherapy is definitely a blessing, not a benefit.
First, postoperative chemotherapy can effectively reduce the recurrence rate.
Most of the late postoperative cancers need chemotherapy to further kill the residual cancer cells and reduce the recurrence rate. Years of clinical studies have proved that the recurrence risk of patients with advanced chemotherapy is lower than that of patients without chemotherapy.
Second, for advanced patients, chemotherapy can control the progress of tumor.
Many advanced cancers that are sensitive to chemotherapy will shrink significantly after chemotherapy. There is no doubt about these visible effects, and with the powerful drugs against side effects entering the clinic, most patients can tolerate the side effects of chemotherapy.
Third, tumors that are extremely sensitive to chemotherapy are expected to be cured by simple chemotherapy.
Before the advent of chemotherapy, the mortality rate of choriocarcinoma could basically reach 100%. Since the advent of chemotherapy, even choriocarcinoma with multiple metastases can be cured by systematic chemotherapy. Choriocarcinoma has also become the first cancer that can be cured by simple chemotherapy. In addition, some lymphoma, testicular seminoma and so on. It can also be cured by chemotherapy alone.
In a word, chemotherapy will bring great side effects, but it can't be denied that chemotherapy brings good news to mankind.
This question is like asking: Is the knife a blessing or a curse for us? The answer, of course, is both a blessing and a curse. The key is to see how you use it. Used well, it helps you to do things and become a good helper in life; If it is not done well, it will become a tool to hurt or even kill people.
Chemotherapy is the same (in fact, other treatments are not the same? Everything has two sides. If you have cancer and your illness needs chemotherapy, then chemotherapy is a blessing to you. It can eliminate or control cancer in your body. Without chemotherapy, cancer cells will be lost in your body, which may kill you soon. For example, if choriocarcinoma is not treated in time, the mortality rate is extremely high, but if it is treated in time and standardized, most of it can be cured. Obviously, in this case, chemotherapy is a great blessing, although there are side effects, it is worth paying.
If you don't need chemotherapy in the first place, or your cancer is not sensitive to chemotherapy, or your health is too poor to bear chemotherapy at all, then the former should not go to chemotherapy, and the latter should be treated with caution (in some cases, it can still be considered).
In short, whether chemotherapy is a blessing or a curse depends on: the sensitivity of your cancer to chemotherapy; Your staging; Your physical condition; Do the doctors and nurses who give you chemotherapy in various departments of the hospital know about chemotherapy ... If used reasonably, the advantages of chemotherapy outweigh the disadvantages, otherwise it will be a disaster.
Hello.
I believe that many people have a bad impression on the word "chemotherapy" itself, and even more than one person is curious, "I lived well before I found out the cancer. Why did people die soon after chemotherapy? "
Let me have a brief talk with you.
Chemotherapy is a therapeutic method to prevent the growth and metastasis of cancer cells by chemical drugs until the cancer cells are finally eliminated. It can be said that both postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy and preoperative neoadjuvant chemotherapy (referring to systemic chemotherapy before local treatment) have contributed to our victory over tumors.
However, because the biggest difference between cancer cells and normal cells is that cells divide and grow rapidly, the mechanism of anticancer drugs is usually to inhibit the growth of cancer cells by interfering with cell division, such as inhibiting DNA replication or preventing chromosome segregation. Because traditional chemotherapy is mostly non-selective, it will also affect our normal cells. However, it must be clear that the cause of death of cancer patients receiving chemotherapy is not chemotherapy but cancer itself.
Chemotherapy is just a treatment to kill cancer cells. Of course, the statement that "some chemotherapy drugs can promote the metastasis of cancer cells while killing them" is not alarmist.
20 17 some scientists have found that paclitaxel in chemotherapy drugs will increase the probability of tumor metastasis microenvironment, and then promote breast cancer metastasis. A month later, another researcher, Tsonwin Hai, found that paclitaxel in chemotherapy drugs can not only help cancer cells escape from the primary focus, but also directly act on the lungs, change the lung microenvironment and help cancer cells colonize in the lungs.
Recently, Ioanna Keklikoglou and Michele De Palma of the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne discovered the mechanism of paclitaxel promoting tumor metastasis. They found that paclitaxel and adriamycin, commonly used chemotherapy drugs, can promote the release of exosomes from tumors, change the microenvironment of the lungs and promote the lung metastasis of breast cancer. Related papers were published in Nature Cell Biology.
Nevertheless, we can't deny the role of chemotherapy in cancer treatment. When choosing a treatment method, the most important thing is to believe in the modern medical level and go to a regular hospital for treatment by a doctor.
It is inevitable to kill cancer cells and normal cells, which is one of the important means of cancer treatment today! Some chemotherapy drugs can really kill and control cancer cells, thus prolonging the survival time, but no matter how to control cancer cells, long-term chemotherapy is basically a dead end! Chemotherapy drugs will cause the failure of the main organs of the body, leading to death! The pain and injury caused by chemotherapy is unimaginable to outsiders! There are three main causes of death for cancer patients: first, death from fright; Second, die of despair (no money to see a doctor, afraid of family destruction); Third, poisoning (organ failure caused by chemotherapy); The rest may die of cancer!
The weak cannot treat chemotherapy lightly. Generally speaking, I personally think that chemotherapy does more harm than good.