What is advanced cancer and cancer pain? This article provides a simple answer, please bookmark it

When talking about cancer, everyone sighs and shakes their heads, because it has troubled people for thousands of years like a nightmare. Even though there are many treatment drugs and methods, the painful treatment process makes people turn pale. It is true that the topic of cancer is almost always heavy, and cancer patients and their families bear too much weight that is unbearable for life. This article will start from the perspective of advanced cancer and explain to you all the various aspects of advanced cancer and cancer pain.

1. Advanced cancer: Cancer cells are very cunning. In the early stage, they will disguise themselves and express a medium to escape the recognition of the immune system and avoid the risk of being killed. Therefore, patients will not experience obvious physical discomfort. For this reason, 80% of malignant tumors in my country are already in the advanced stage when they are discovered.

Advanced cancer generally refers to cancer that has recurred and metastasized, and most of the time it has metastasized to distant sites. The main purpose of treatment is to relieve pain and prolong survival. Advanced cancer generally has no chance of radical surgery, so it cannot be cured. It can only be treated with palliative treatments such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy and targeted therapy to relieve the patient's pain and prolong the prognosis and survival period.

2. Cancer pain The essence of cancer is a malignant tumor that grows malignantly and is out of the body's control. When it invades peripheral nerves or compresses surrounding tissues, it will cause pain. However, not all cancers in the late stages will cause pain. Only some patients with metastasis to bones, spinal cord, brain, compression of nerve roots, metastasis to the liver or primary liver cancer will experience more severe pain caused by involvement of the liver capsule. For example, patients with bladder cancer will not experience pain. Some pain is not caused by cancer, but pain caused by previous diseases, so it cannot be generalized.

Cancer pain is defined as pain caused by malignant tumors, tumor-related lesions and anti-cancer treatment. Cancer pain can be divided into nociceptive pain and neuropathic pain according to the pathophysiological mechanism. Pain can be divided into acute pain and chronic pain according to the duration of onset. The incidence of pain in newly diagnosed cancer patients is about 25%, while the incidence of pain in patients with advanced cancer can reach 60%-80%, of which 1/3 of patients suffer from severe pain.

Generally speaking, most cancers such as breast cancer, liver cancer, gastric cancer, lung cancer and other advanced tumors directly invade and compress local tissues, or tumor metastasis involves bones, soft tissues, etc., which will cause pain symptoms. More than half of them are very severe and patients will find it difficult to bear. It is best to relieve the pain by preparing opioid analgesics in advance. For example, morphine and tramadol are very effective. In addition, cancer pain can also consider the use of Yanxiang analgesic capsules, Chinese medicine strong analgesics, etc., and cooperate with anti-tumor Chinese medicine for treatment.

For patients with cancer pain, a routine and comprehensive cancer pain assessment should be conducted, which is the premise for reasonable and effective pain relief treatment. The general treatment methods for cancer pain include etiological treatment, drug treatment and non-drug treatment. For patients with advanced cancer pain, pain relief treatment should be carried out under the guidance of a doctor. The specific type, usage and dosage of pain relief drugs should be formulated by the doctor according to the patient's specific condition. Patients should take medication regularly and should not adjust medication and dosage without authorization.

3. Treatment of advanced cancer Patients with advanced cancer are unlikely to be cured, and active treatment can generally extend their lifespan by 1-3 years. The main methods of advanced cancer treatment are surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, targeted drug therapy, microwave ablation therapy, interventional therapy, radiofrequency therapy, etc. In addition, the increasing influence of traditional Chinese medicine in the world in the past two years has brought new ideas and directions to the clinical treatment of advanced cancer by traditional Chinese and Western medicine.

Another very important point is that personal psychological quality will also affect the state of cancer patients. Patients with good psychological quality can treat their condition correctly and will not have big mood swings. They often have better treatment effects and better mental state. However, some patients are still depressed even when the cancer has not spread in the early stage, and their mental state is not as good as that of patients with a positive mentality, which leads to a significant reduction in their life expectancy.

In addition, for some cancers, as long as the growth, development and spread of the tumor can be controlled, the patient can live with the tumor, prolong life, and relieve the patient's symptoms. Therefore, if early patients can be discovered, diagnosed and treated early, most patients can be completely cured through radical surgical resection.

4. Cancer prevention: For any disease, prevention is more important than treatment, and cancer is no exception. First, quit smoking and limit alcohol consumption. Smoking is related to dozens of cancers in the human body. People with liver diseases must absolutely quit drinking. If you still smoke and drink after cancer occurs, it will lead to poor treatment results and accelerate metastasis. Second, you must have a good attitude to face life. Psychology divides people's personalities into three types: A, B, and C. Type C personality is also called depressive personality. The incidence of cancer in this type of people is significantly higher. Third, you must exercise regularly. Exercise can enhance a person's immunity and make people more optimistic, which is conducive to inhibiting the canceration of body cells. Fourth, you must eat regularly and healthily. Now many people have changed their pace of life, skipping breakfast and overeating at dinner, which is very bad for the digestive system. Fifth, pay attention to physical examinations. Cancer prevention is closely related to the time of discovery. The earlier the discovery, the more favorable the prognosis. All physical examinations are very important.

I hope everyone will pay attention to cancer, prevent cancer, and not overdraw their health while they are young.