How about treating the tumor? How long can I live?

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We often say that so and so cancer can be cured, so treatment has become a more concerned topic. The common people's understanding of "cure" is different from that of "cure" in medicine. The common people think that cure means that it will be OK in the future, and it will be OK in the whole life. It means that the disease is completely "cured" and will never get it again. Now let's share how to treat tumor in Lianyungang second hospital?.

How about treating the tumor? How long can I live?

First, "cure" in medicine is not exactly the same thing as "cure" understood by the common people. Generally, the word "cure" is not easily used in medicine to avoid misleading the public. Instead, the long-term curative effect after cancer treatment is judged by the five-year or ten-year survival rate, that is, the probability of living over five or ten years after treatment (but not only five or ten years, They live at least five or ten years.

Second, as for why some cancers use the five-year survival rate, others use the ten-year survival rate, this is because different cancers have different degrees of malignancy, development speed, treatment and prognosis. For example, papillary thyroid cancer has a low degree of malignancy and a very good treatment effect. Most patients can live over five years at will, Only the 10-year survival rate can reflect the difference of long-term curative effect of different patients.

Third, most cancer recurrences occur within two to three years after radical treatment. After two or three years, there will be few recurrences, while there will be fewer recurrences after five or ten years (remember, "rare" does not mean "no"), so if there is no recurrence after five or ten years of follow-up, the risk of recurrence or death will be very small, In medicine, it can be regarded as "cure". Five or ten years is the risk of recurrence. If we cross this threshold, it is basically safe. Of course, it's just "basically safe". Medicine is not theology. Basic safety is not equal to absolute safety. The so-called "cure" is of course relative. It doesn't guarantee that there will be no recurrence in the future or that there will be a long life.

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