Qilu One Point reporter Ma Xueting
April 15th to 21st is the 28th National Cancer Prevention Publicity Week. This year’s theme is “early action for cancer prevention and treatment”. Liu Lihua, Director of the Department of Radiology, Heze Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, conducts popular science:
1. Standardized cancer prevention physical examination can detect cancer early
1. Cancer prevention physical examination is a physical examination for common cancers on the basis of cancer risk assessment.
2. The current technology can detect most common cancers at an early stage. Lung cancer can be detected by using low-dose spiral CT of the chest, breast cancer can be detected by ultrasound combined with mammography, and gastrointestinal cancer can be detected by gastroenteroscopy.
3. The appropriate interval of physical examination should be selected according to the age of the individual and the results of previous examinations.
4. The anti-cancer physical examination is highly professional, pays attention to individualization and effectiveness, and should be carried out by a professional physical examination institution.
Second, changing unhealthy lifestyles can prevent the occurrence of cancer
The World Health Organization considers cancer to be a lifestyle disease, smoking, obesity, lack of exercise, unreasonable dietary habits, alcoholism , Excessive stress, psychological stress and so on are all risk factors for the occurrence of cancer. Smoking cessation and alcohol restriction, balanced diet, moderate exercise, and good mood can effectively reduce the incidence of cancer.
Three, early diagnosis and early treatment is the key to improving cancer survival rate
Pay attention to the cancer danger signals that appear in the body, and you should go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time if the following symptoms occur: Abnormal lumps on the body surface; dark moles and warts on the body surface that deepen or increase rapidly in a short period of time; abnormal sensations in the body, such as choking, pain, etc.; long-lasting ulcers on the skin or mucous membranes; persistent indigestion and loss of appetite ; Changes in stool habits and traits or blood; persistent hoarseness, dry cough, blood in sputum; hearing abnormalities, nosebleeds, headache; abnormal vaginal bleeding, especially contact bleeding; painless hematuria, dysuria; unknown cause fever, fatigue, and progressive weight loss.
“I don’t feel hot or painful during radiotherapy, I don’t feel anything. Am I really being treated? There will be a mush smell during radiotherapy.” In the face of radiotherapy, patients will inevitably question. Liu Lihua, director of the Radiology Department of Heze Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that radiotherapy, as one of the standard methods of tumor treatment, is characterized by “precise positioning, precise planning, and precise strikes”. The patient is precisely positioned under CT, and the field is accurately distributed according to the three-dimensional shape and position of the tumor. The dose intensity is adjusted inversely by the computer system, and the online image-guided verification is carried out before the treatment. Feel. At the same time, radiotherapy can be interspersed with the whole process of tumor treatment, including radical cure in the early stage, combined treatment in the middle and late stages, and palliative treatment in the later stage. Sometimes surgery can also be created, for example, if esophageal cancer is unresectable in the neck, radiotherapy will be the first choice.
It is understood that the Radiotherapy Center of Heze Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, together with national-level tumor radiotherapy experts and physicists, has established a professional diagnosis and treatment team. Taking advantage of online diagnosis and treatment, and in the form of “on-site consultation by experts + remote consultation”, it develops individualized treatment plans for patients’ conditions one-on-one, so that top domestic experts can directly provide diagnosis and treatment services for patients, eliminating the need for cancer patients to travel thousands of miles. The suffering of doctors is to meet the needs of tumor patients to enjoy high-level, high-quality humanized diagnosis and treatment services on the spot to the greatest extent.
The hospital’s radiotherapy center has the world’s most advanced tumor radiotherapy equipment – Sweden’s Elekta Synergy linear accelerator, which can achieve “high precision, high dose, high efficacy, and low damage” precision radiotherapy for tumors , can significantly improve the local tumor control rate and reduce normal tissue complications. The hospital adds traditional Chinese medicine treatment to radiation therapy, such as acupuncture and moxibustion to help patients reduce pain caused by tumors, and traditional Chinese medicine to help tumor patients sleep, which greatly improves the quality of life of patients.