How long can you live with advanced cervical cancer?

Patients with advanced cervical cancer cannot survive for too long. Generally, they can only survive about a year. In addition, patients with advanced cancer will experience a decline in physical fitness and increased complications. Therefore, patients with advanced cervical cancer should take medication regularly to control the disease and relax their mentality. An optimistic attitude can inhibit the onset of the disease and increase the patient's survival time.

How long can I live if I am diagnosed with advanced cervical cancer?

Cervical cancer is a general term for all malignant tumors at the primary site of the tumor. Clinically, different types of cancer can be further divided according to histological principles, and each type of cancer has different degrees of malignancy. Moreover, the formulation of tumor treatment plans is not static. Traditional Chinese medicine suggests that the treatment of cervical cancer should follow the principles of dialectical treatment and individualized treatment. It is necessary to consider the different constitutions, symptoms, complications, etc. of cervical cancer patients, and adopt different treatment strategies according to different conditions of deficiency or excess.

Therefore, how long a patient with advanced cervical cancer can live is closely related to physical constitution, care of complications, treatment effectiveness, tumor malignancy, etc., and it is usually difficult to come up with a specific numerical answer. The longest one may live for five, ten or even longer years, while the shortest one may die within a few months or half a year.

In clinical practice, there is the concept of five-year survival rate. Many patients have also heard about the five-year survival rate for advanced cervical cancer, but this statistic describes the overall data and is quite different from that of a single individual. Patients with advanced cervical cancer should not worry too much when seeing a low survival rate. By actively cooperating with treatment, there is still a chance to prolong survival or even achieve long-term survival.

So, how to treat advanced cervical cancer to prolong survival?

How to treat cervical cancer? Current treatment methods include: surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, targeted drug therapy, immunotherapy, traditional Chinese medicine treatment, etc., which can be simply divided into Chinese and Western medicine. Western medicine has strong tumor-killing power, but it has great toxic side effects, many complications, and is prone to recurrence and metastasis. Traditional Chinese medicine is not as powerful as Western medicine in killing tumors, but it has stable and safe effects.

Cervical cancer is a systemic disease. Western medicine can treat the external tumor to achieve symptomatic treatment. However, the occurrence of cervical cancer is the result of changes in the body's microenvironment, and a cancer environment suitable for tumor survival and growth has been formed in the patient's body. Therefore, in order to stabilize the tumor in the long term, it is necessary to take into account both the specimen and the root cause, focusing on both local cancer treatment and adjusting the body's disordered internal environment. Traditional Chinese medicine can treat endogenous factors, target the pathogenesis and pathology of cervical cancer, stabilize the cancer environment, and maintain a balance between the body's immune function and tumor resistance. Therefore, in order to better prevent tumor recurrence and metastasis and prolong the patient's survival in the late stage, traditional Chinese medicine needs to be included in the treatment plan as early as possible.

However, there are many concepts in TCM cancer treatment, and it is important to choose a TCM doctor who has a deep analysis of TCM cancer treatment. President Yuan Xifu of Zhengzhou Xifu TCM Cancer Hospital is such a TCM oncologist who pays equal attention to clinical experience and theory. Yuan Xifu comes from a century-old family of traditional Chinese medicine. He is well versed in traditional Chinese medicine theory and pharmacology, and has been committed to the treatment of cancer with traditional Chinese medicine for nearly 40 years. After long-term clinical practice, he has summarized the main pathogenesis of cervical cancer patients, which are manifested by deficiency of vital energy, phlegm and blood stasis, and aggregation of cancer toxins. Therefore, in treatment, we should grasp the three essences of "deficiency", "stasis" and "poison", conduct dialectical treatment, and adopt symptomatic treatment strategies of strengthening the body to replenish deficiency, regulating qi and activating blood stasis, and resolving phlegm and dispersing nodules. This can achieve targeted results, comprehensively adjust the balance of qi and blood, yin and yang, and internal organs throughout the body, and effectively prolong the patient's survival.