In February 2022, the National Cancer Center released the latest issue of national cancer statistics.
In 2016, the number of new cancer patients in my country was as high as 4.064 million, and at the same time, about 2.414 million people lost their lives due to cancer.
meaning that approximately every 8 seconds one person develops cancer, Every 13 seconds a person dies of cancer.
Source: References[1]
The data released in this report is the data collected by the National Cancer Registry in 2016 from the National Cancer Registry. Cancer numbers may be much higher than this figure.
Routine physical examinations are not effective screening
with With the gradual improvement of people’s health awareness, more and more people have begun to pay attention to routine physical examinations, but why is it still late when some people find cancer?
Actually, there are two main reasons:
First, general cancer may have no obvious symptoms in the early stage, or even if there are symptoms, it may be similar to common diseases and easily overlooked.
Secondly, most cancers are cunning and generally do not affect the physiological indicators in routine physical examinations in the early stage.
Speaking of this, someone asked again: There is one item in the routine physical examination ” Tumor marker test” Can this also not detect cancer?
In this way, everyone may understand:
For tumor markers If the result is normal, there may be cancer, and if the result is abnormal, there may be no cancer.
So, for ordinary people, most tumor markers have limited effect on early cancer screening. Of course, there are also some with high specificity, such as prostate-specific (PSA) antigen detection, which is helpful for auxiliary screening of prostate cancer, and serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) test. It is helpful for auxiliary screening of liver cancer.
So how can cancer be detected early? That’s today’s topic: cancer screening.
The World Health Organization has long proposed:
one third of cancer patients are completely preventable;
one third of cancer patients can be cured through early detection;
one third of cancer patients can be extended with existing medical measures life, alleviate suffering, improve quality of life.
Therefore, there is no need to “talk about the discoloration of cancer”. As long as cancer screening, early detection and early treatment can be done well, the clinical cure rate of cancer can be significantly improved. For example, the overall clinical cure rate of early breast cancer can reach more than 95%; if it is advanced breast cancer, the clinical cure rate is only about 10%.
According to the national cancer statistics over the years, it can be seen that the number of cancer patients begins to increase after the age of 20 for both men and women. It is generally recommended From the age of 20, some targeted cancer screenings can be carried out according to individual circumstances.
Source: Chinese Journal of Oncology, JNCC | Data
Cancer Screening, Different for Men and Women
As you can see from national cancer statistics, women and men differ in cancer rates and therefore the recommended types of cancer to screen for.
Source: Chinese Journal of Oncology, JNCC | >
According to various types of cancer screening and early diagnosis and treatment guidelines, diagnosis and treatment guidelines, expert consensus recommendations, etc. Xiaohe Medical Code sorted out theCancer screening recommendations for women and men of different ages for your reference:
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