Hearing the word “cancer” most people associate it with a terminal illness. In fact, cancer is no longer synonymous with terminal illness. It can be said that cancer is already a common disease. Almost everyone has relatives and friends suffering from cancer. The incidence rate is increasing year by year, but the mortality rate is gradually decreasing. Thanks to the popularity of medical examinations, many cancer patients can be detected early.
Someone asked, what are the top ten non-lethal cancers? In fact, this question is not very rigorous. If cancer is detected at an extremely early stage and treated in time, even the most malignant liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, and gallbladder cancer have a chance of being cured. However, cancer cells have the characteristics of infinite proliferation and metastasis. If they are not treated in time and allowed to develop, even mild cancers have the possibility of metastasis. So, “not lethal” is only relative.
Let’s list ten cancers with relatively high cure rates and long survival periods.
1. Papillary Thyroid Cancer
Papillary thyroid cancer is a veritable “lazy cancer”, which grows slowly and accounts for more than 90% of all thyroid cancers. This type of thyroid cancer only needs to be surgically removed, and it can be replaced by oral administration of Eucalyptus after surgery. Treatment generally poses no threat to a person’s long-term survival.
2. Early stage lung cancer
With the popularization of chest CT, the detection rate of early lung cancer has increased significantly, especially the growth of ground glass nodule-like lung adenocarcinoma is relatively indolent, and basically no metastasis occurs within 1cm. Early-stage lung cancer includes carcinoma in situ and minimally invasive carcinoma, and the surgical cure rate reaches 100%, which does not affect the normal survival time. The 5-year survival rate of patients with stage IA lung cancer is close to 90%.
3. Basal cell carcinoma of the skin
Basal cell carcinoma of the skin is a low-grade skin tumor that mainly damages the local skin tissue structure, and has a relatively low chance of organ or lymph node metastasis. Common in the elderly, it occurs on the head, face, and neck, mainly due to long-term sunlight exposure. In general, complete surgical excision is curative.
4. Early cervical cancer
I stage cervical cancer, that is, early stage cervical cancer, has a five-year overall survival rate of 95%, and stage II has a 70%-80% survival rate. If the patient is unwilling to undergo surgery, concurrent chemoradiotherapy can be performed, which can achieve basically the same effect as surgery.
5. Early breast cancer
The radical cure rate of early breast cancer is very high, especially for luminaA type breast cancer, the treatment effect is good and the prognosis is the best. It can be said that breast cancer is a cancer that is curable and has many treatment methods. Due to the relatively long survival period, it is usually evaluated by the 10-year survival rate.
6. Nasopharyngeal cancer
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is sensitive to radiation, and the preferred treatment is radiotherapy. After early radiotherapy, nasopharyngeal carcinoma can be completely cured clinically. Even if the cervical lymph nodes metastasize, radiotherapy can be cured. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma can be cured by radiotherapy. The overall cure rate is as high as 80%.
7. Hodgkin Lymphoma
There are many types of lymphoma. Hodgkin lymphoma has a relatively good prognosis. Modern radiotherapy and chemotherapy have made Hodgkin lymphoma a curable tumor. Lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma stage I-II has a cure rate of up to 80% and does not require transplantation.
8. Prostate cancer
Prostate tumors mostly grow at a very slow rate, or don’t grow at all, the tumors are not even considered to require treatment, and many men can live normal lives without any complications. However, prostate cancer is prone to bone metastasis, advanced prostate cancer, undifferentiated prostate cancerAdenocarcinoma has a poor prognosis.
9. Choriocarcinoma
Female choriocarcinoma is highly sensitive to chemotherapy, and lung metastases disappear after chemotherapy in most patients. Even in very few people, lung metastases can spontaneously disappear after surgical resection. Therefore, the clinical cure rate of choriocarcinoma is very high, which can reach more than 90% in the early stage. Even if brain metastasis occurs, more than 50% of patients can still be cured.
Seminoma
Seminoma is a type of testicular cancer, most of which present as focal lesions, 80% are stage I (limited to the testis) and 15% are stage II (limited to the peritoneum) retroperitoneal lymph nodes), which may spread beyond the retroperitoneal lymph nodes in less than 5% of patients. Seminoma has a good prognosis and a high survival rate. The five-year survival rate of patients exceeds 95%, and the survival rate of stage I patients can almost reach 100%.