In the eyes of the general public, [cancer] has become the most terrible word among all diseases: hypertension and heart disease can be controlled by taking medicine, diabetes and insulin are no problem at all, but how can this cancer not be cured?
Therefore, cancer has also become the hardest hit area for rumors. Both health experts and charlatans have some tricks [this can cure cancer]. Let’s take a look at these enduring rumors about cancer.
Rumor 1: If you have cancer, you must be sentenced to death.
How long can you live with cancer? This is directly related to the type of cancer and the time of discovery.
If it is liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, gastric cancer and esophageal cancer, the living time may be relatively short. However, if it is rectal cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer and thyroid cancer, it may live for a long time, and some early tumors can even be cured.
Secondly, it is much better to find cancer early than late. For example, if nasopharyngeal carcinoma is found in the early and middle stages, 90% of people can live for more than five years. However, if it is already in the middle and late period when it is discovered, it will drop to 60% ~ 70%.
Therefore, cancer should be treated differently. It is not cancer that means death judgment.
Rumor 2: Without treatment, you will live longer.
In life, many patients think that cancer is an incurable disease. They believe that surgery will lead to the spread of tumors, radiotherapy and chemotherapy will destroy people’s immunity and make cancer grow faster, so they may live longer without treatment.
Sometimes, unreasonable treatment may indeed shorten the life of patients, such as performing large-scale surgery on elderly patients in poor health-and patients may not be able to afford surgery at all.
However, regular and reasonable tumor treatment can prolong the life of patients and improve the quality of life, which has been confirmed by clear tests.
Rumor 3: Everything is fine after tumor removal,
At present, the most important treatment methods are also the three most familiar ones: surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
On the premise of being able to operate, surgical resection is the first choice for most tumors. However, surgical resection cannot rest easy, after all, malignant tumors always have the possibility of recurrence.
For example, after breast cancer tumor resection, it should be checked according to the stage, pathological type and immunotyping of the tumor, whether chemotherapy, radiotherapy, endocrine therapy or targeted therapy should be done. According to the actual situation of each patient, appropriate comprehensive treatment should be selected to reduce tumor recurrence.
We should also follow the doctor’s regular review plan and control the recurrence at the earliest stage, so that the tumor operation will not be [done for nothing].
Rumor 4: Nutrition has been given to tumors, so [hunger therapy]
People mistakenly believe that the good nutrition they eat supplies the tumor and the tumor will grow faster, so they say that eating vegetarian food alone can [starve] the tumor.
However, tumor is a disease that lasts for a long time and consumes a lot of body. Tumor patients often lose weight and are mostly skinny in the late stage. Therefore, if you have cancer, you should still ensure sufficient nutrients, even slightly higher than ordinary people, to improve your immunity.
However, doctors also have a real [hunger therapy], which is to block the blood vessels that deliver nutrition to the tumor, so that the tumor will not receive blood and nutrition and will slowly [starve to death].
Rumor 5: Eating [Hair] Promotes Cancer Recurrence
The popular saying among the people is: beef, mutton, carp, rooster, eggs, leeks, garlic, scallion, etc. These are all [hair products] and cannot be eaten. Eating them will cause cancer to recur.
In modern medicine, there is no such thing as [hair], so there is basically no such thing as [taboo]. There is no scientific basis for a kind of food to make cancer recur at present. On the contrary, patients should supplement more high protein and digestible food to ensure sufficient nutrition and rapid recovery of the body after receiving various treatments.