What can families of patients do to fight cancer?

With the progress of the times, more and more cancers are happening around us. We often equate cancer with “sickness and suffering” because for cancer patients, once they have cancer, it is equivalent to a complete separation from their social roles. Patients not only need to receive long-term treatment, but also There are also some physical torments caused by complications or side effects of treatment, and more importantly, mental blows and setbacks. For this family, cancer is a very sad event. At this time, the family members of the patient have become the most important role. Whether it is to help patients with diagnosis, psychological assistance, drug selection and treatment methods in treatment, or life care of patients, it will have a great impact on the treatment effect of patients. What can family members of patients do to fight cancer?

Adjust your mentality and give your patients the best support

• shocked (repeatedly check with doctor Diagnosis)

• denial (this can’t be true! Will it? It’s the wrong report)

• anger (why is my family getting cancer !)

• desperate (cancer has such a short lifespan, what should I do )

• accept (I want to accompany my family to work hard to create miracles!) span>

As a family member, you must learn to quickly adjust your emotions. In fact, when cancer patients understand When sick, they must feel worse than you. At this time, you must give patients the most positive feedback and support to relieve their stress. How should family members’ emotions be regulated? In fact, there are many ways. The most recommended way is to actively understand the knowledge of cancer. Instead of fearing it, it is better to face it and overcome it! With the continuous leap of our medical level, cancer is no longer the so-called “terminal illness” in the past. Even if it is advanced cancer, a considerable number of patients achieve long-term survival and “dance with cancer”. Understanding the basic knowledge of cancer can not only build up enough confidence in yourself, but also give patients firm confidence in time when they are in bad mood. You must know that firm anti-cancer confidence and an optimistic attitude are very important for the entire anti-cancer treatment cycle of patients.

A cancer diagnosis is best done with the patient

Hidden illness, it seems to have become a customary habit in China. When diagnosed with cancer, doctors usually don’t tell patients directly, “Are your family members here?” In the printing shop around the hospital, the bosses are very skilled at revising the medical report, from gastric cancer to gastritis and liver cancer to hepatitis. After a series of operations, the patient was successfully kept in the dark. Should the patient’s condition be concealed? Is it good for the patient to hide the condition? Our answer is: We encourage patients to Decide. Why hide the condition? Because we feel like patients will break down once they learn their true condition. But is this really the case? In the medically developed United States and Japan, it is the basic right of patients to know their condition, and many relevant clinical studies have been conducted in medicine, and the results show that more than 90% of patients want to know about their condition, and at the same time, telling the patient about the condition will not lead to a decline in the patient’s survival or the occurrence of related psychiatric diseases. We underestimate the patient’s ability to handle their condition and overestimate the help of concealing the condition. In fact, concealing the condition can do a lot of harm:

• Patients do not know their actualdisease, which leads to the failure of many wishes to be fulfilled, the inability to express the emotions that I hope to express, and brings many regrets;

• Hiding the disease often brings More over-medical treatment, resulting in more cost and more suffering for patients;

• It is difficult to conceal the condition In this way, the patient may be in a state of doubt and anxiety for a long time, but it is more likely to collapse; There is regret and guilt.

Of course, the final decision on whether to conceal the condition also needs to be determined according to the actual situation. Poor, unable to accept such bad news, family members need to consider more comprehensively.

The first rule that family members should adhere to when diagnosed with cancer: believe in regular treatment strong>

“detoxification therapy, fighting poison with poison, acid-base regulation, diet therapy and anti-cancer”, these various so-called anti-cancer “home remedies”, I believe everyone Patients are no strangers. The Pharaoh next door ate a magic doctor’s secret recipe, and the cancer was cured; a folk “magic doctor” claimed that he could cure cancer, but only if the patient could not undergo radiotherapy and chemotherapy… There are so many so-called “home remedies”, which can be said to surround our patients and their families. The first thing to be clear after being diagnosed with cancer is: Believe in regular treatment, don’t be deceived by the so-called “cure for all diseases”, which not only wastes money, but also greatly delays patients Treatment. Why do you say these remedies are deceptive? If you recall carefully, these remedies you heard never mentioned the big data on their efficacy in cancer populations, but only heard that it is effective in “the old Zhang’s house next door” and “effective in the homes of relatives and friends”, such a case , is it really trustworthy? We will never see that there may be thousands of people who are effectively deceived behind a single case. To be frank, the so-called “home remedies” actually have no scientific basis. Some of them may be some well-intentioned “misunderstandings” between people It may be that economic interests are involved, and some “flickers” in the arena make unscrupulous money. When suffering from cancer, it is the most correct choice to accept modern standard treatment, and various tragedies caused by earthwork have occurred from time to time. European and American countries have even done big data statistics. Compared with patients receiving standardized treatment, they only receive various earthwork (called in European and American countries) For: alternative therapy)mortality was significantly increased.

Diagnosed cancer, family members should see a doctor like this strong>

If you have cancer, whether you are a patient or a family member, you may be in a state of panic. It is easy to be in a hurry when asking a doctor for a consultation, but it is completely impossible to say what the specific situation is. As a family member, you should prepare a record of doctor visits each time you see a doctor. Don’t forget to bring these items, or provide this information:

• Remember to bring: medical records, pathology Results, imaging data in chronological order, recent blood test results(including blood routine, biochemistry, tumor markers, etc.), and be prepared to inform the doctor medicines, etc.

• When online consultation, telephone consultation and other remote consultations, you should provide these materials: the age and sex of the patient, the specific location of the tumor, and the pathological results of the tumor , staging results, which treatments have been received before, how is the response to these treatments, what is the patient’s recent basic condition, etc.

Do these preparations, I believe you can get a relatively complete diagnosis and treatment opinion, and can also prepare for the next time The treatment has laid a good foundation.

diagnosed with cancer, family members should take the initiative to learn more anti-cancer knowledge, Can greatly improve patient outcomes

In fact, many cancer patients are ill Outbreaks are caused by failure to detect signs of resistance/progression in time. Under China’s special medical system, it is difficult for cancer doctors to keep an eye on each patient’s condition. The most important response is to require patients to “follow up” regularly. However, the changes in cancer conditions are often calculated in “days”, and the follow-up of 2-3 months is often impossible to detect in the first time. The progression of the disease makes it impossible for the patient to adjust the treatment plan in time, resulting in unpredictable consequences. As a family member of the patient, if we master some more advanced anti-cancer knowledge at this time, many problems will be solved easily: blood in the sputum of the patient/bone pain/dizziness A series of symptoms such as ghosting, accompanied by patients for re-examination in time, can often grasp the progress of the disease at the first time, and make targeted adjustment of the plan, so that the patient can receive the best treatment. Another important role of family members taking the initiative to learn anti-cancer knowledge is that they can keep abreast of the latest anti-cancer drug news, which may bring better treatment to patients at critical moments Program. Of course, for the patient, it is great for family members to achieve the above points, but the most important thing is to always accompany the patient to fight cancer together and give the patient the strongest support. backing. With the joint efforts of family members and patients, “Dancing with Cancer” is not an unattainable dream!