Healthy China Cancer Screening Public Welfare Project

Because cancer screening is very expensive now, if you can join medical insurance, you can let more residents have cancer screening and better protect residents. According to media reports, some representatives suggested that cancer screening should be included in medical insurance, because many cancer patients got worse because they missed the best opportunity in the late stage. Professionals point out that tumor is a very special disease. Many times, patients have only one chance to be treated. Once the best opportunity is missed, it will be very dangerous for patients.

Increasing the screening of tumors can first obtain better therapeutic effect for patients. On the other hand, early detection and early treatment can effectively reduce the pain of patients and the economic burden of treatment. The representative pointed out that cervical cancer screening has started in some rural areas, so the conditions for tumor screening to enter medical insurance are now ripe. Especially in rural areas, some farmers have poor awareness of physical examination and are unfamiliar with tumor screening. If medical insurance can provide corresponding services, it can better protect the residents in rural areas.

In fact, over the years, more and more anticancer drugs have entered the medical insurance, and the expenditure on anticancer drugs has also occupied a lot of funds in the medical insurance. If patients can be screened early, treated early and recovered early, the payment pressure of medical insurance fund will also be reduced.

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According to the latest global cancer burden data released by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization in June 5438+February 65438+May 2020, there were 4.57 million new cancer cases and 3 million deaths in China in 2020, ranking first in the world.

Interface news noted that during the Third Session of the 13th National People's Congress in 2020, Yang, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of Baoding Municipal Committee of Hebei Province of the Agricultural and Labour Party, also put forward the proposal of "further strengthening early cancer screening and improving the quality of people's health examination".

Yang mentioned in this proposal that the important reason for the high cancer mortality rate in China is that there is no incubation period for early detection and early treatment. When obvious symptoms appear, they often enter the middle and late stage and are difficult to save. In the proposal, Yang proposed that cancer screening should be included in the scope of national health checkups and the financial policy guarantee for health checkups should be improved.