-Can cancer be detected by routine physical examination every year?
-Is there any value in the current [professional cancer prevention physical examination]?
-How can cancer screening be useful?
Have these problems bothered you?
Every time we talk about cancer, we always hear that early detection and treatment of cancer are really important, so more and more people hope to confirm their relationship with cancer through various physical examinations: yes or no.
For cancer, does all kinds of physical examination mean what?
Dr. Clove also had this doubt, so he went to ask Mr. Ye Sen and found the answer. He hoped that you who saw this article could also find the desired answer from Mr. Ye Sen’s reply.
General Physical Examination: It is Difficult to Find Traces of Cancer,
Our annual routine physical examination is mainly to measure a person’s overall health level.
General examination items include height, weight, blood routine, liver function, kidney function, etc. These examinations can help people understand their physical state and the operation of important organs. Common chronic diseases can also be diagnosed, such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, etc.
However, unfortunately, the vast majority of cancers will not affect these physiological indicators examined by doctors during routine physical examination at an early stage.
Cancer cells always lurk quietly first, then slowly develop and grow into tumors. They will not do things when they are weak.
Therefore, ordinary physical examination cannot help us find clues of early cancer.
[Professional Cancer Prevention Package]: Harmful and useless, unnecessary
At present, the popular professional cancer prevention physical examination package claims to be able to screen cancer by accurately measuring a series of tumor markers. The more luxurious cancer prevention package also includes PET/CT medical imaging examination, which is also helpful to accurately locate early tumors.
However, the truth of the matter is that these cancer prevention examinations will not bring any benefits or even harm to the general public.
In fact, the examination of tumor markers is not very sensitive, and false positive or false negative results may occur.
That is to say, when there is no cancer, we lie about military intelligence, which brings us unnecessary mental pressure and follow-up examination. Or clearly suffering from cancer, but not detected, delayed the precious treatment opportunity.
Although PET/CT looks more advanced, it is itself a less sensitive imaging technology, and there are also problems of false positive and false negative. To take a step back, frequent PET/CT examination also has carcinogenic risks.
See here, do you also know?
At present, the popular professional anti-cancer physical examination package is not worth pursuing. It is not a matter of money, but it is really unnecessary.
Cancer Screening: Only Effective for Some Cancer
Although you may lose this, we must also understand the fact that at present, the professional field has found effective screening methods for only a small number of cancers.
The world’s recognized effective cancer screening programs include cervical cancer screening, breast cancer screening and colorectal cancer screening. As long as the healthy population meets the screening criteria, participating in these cancer screening can prevent accidents before they occur.
In addition, some high-risk groups such as lung cancer and gastric cancer can also carry out corresponding cancer screening to realize early detection and treatment.
As for how to do the cancer screening mentioned above, Dr. Clove also asked me to share it with you before. Click to view the cancer screening and do so.
In fact, Dr. Clove fully understands everyone’s urgent desire for cancer screening: if only the blood, urine or saliva taken in routine physical examination could be used to detect early cancer…
Perhaps, we are still a little time away from the day when cancer can be found by ordinary physical examination, but numerous studies are currently under way. Scientists have been trying to find more sensitive, accurate, fast and painless detection methods and diagnostic tools to help us detect cancer as early as possible.