When I hear people around me talk about whoever has terminal cancer, the first thing they think is, "Didn't you find it in your previous checkups?
On the other hand, people have been having medical checkups every year, and all the indicators are "normal".
Why couldn't you find it?
It is not that the cancer is too fierce, but the domestic medical examination has not reached a precise and rigorous degree, the medical examination is a formality, to find psychological comfort.
Doctors in China know better than ever that ordinary medical checkups can't detect cancer at an early stage, and that there is only one measure of the quality of medical checkups, and that is the detection rate and effectiveness of "medical-grade checkups".
When it comes to medical-grade medical checkups, I have to blow a rainbow fart again. In terms of the sophistication and rigor of medical checkups, Japan is definitely the first in Asia.
Since 2004, Japan has been implementing the "Third Decade Comprehensive Cancer Strategy";
its precision cancer screening is often measured in millimeters and micrometers;
the cure rate of liver and lung cancers that are difficult to treat can be up to 60% and 78% with early diagnosis and treatment in Japan.
Now more and more health-conscious Chinese are traveling to Japan for cancer screening, so what are the advantages of Japan's precision medical checkups?
One-on-one service
There are two kinds of medical checkups in China: hospital checkups and commercial checkups.
The biggest problem with hospital medical checkups is that there are a lot of people, the departments are scattered, and most of the items need to be booked, and if you don't book an appointment, you need to queue up, and the medical checkups are exhausting and exhausting, which is why commercial medical checkups have emerged to fill the gap.
Commercial medical checkups are unreliable, the machine is not medical grade consumers do not know, the doctor is not a professional field with extensive clinical experience of consumers do not know, so it is not surprising that commercial medical checkups have become a proof of entry to go through the motions.
Japan implements a comprehensive reservation system, hospitals and medical check-up organizations receive only 10-20 customers a day, there is sufficient time for guests to do detailed examination services.
The day's medical checkups will be one-on-one or multi-on-one services, which avoids wasting time waiting in line and does not spare any organ or any angle of the body for screening.
Japan's hospitals are generally not very crowded because medical resources are more evenly distributed.
After the completion of each item in the physical examination, the physical examination center will send the examination data to the medical center for a rigorous collective diagnosis by a team of at least three attending doctors in general practice (examining doctor - auditing and reviewing doctor - president of the hospital).
Finally, the results of the physical examination data, along with a detailed analysis, are stapled into a thick booklet, which is flown across the strait from Japan to your hands at home.
The World Leader in Cancer Screening
Japan is a country with a complete medical and healthcare system, and has a very sound cancer prevention system and cancer prevention equipment. Multiple screening methods are set up for the same cancer, which can detect early and early stage cancer cells at the micron level.
Today, Japan holds the world record of detecting early stage cancers of 5 millimeters (at present, cancer health examinations in countries around the world can only detect cancers of 15 millimeters or more).
Japanese people have always had a strong sense of concern, and in the field of cancer prevention, they have been implementing three 10-year plans to fight cancer since 1984, and have now entered the third 10-year plan for anti-cancer strategies. As of 2008, Japan's national cancer cure rate reached 68%, ranking first in the world.
This high cure rate is due to the early detection of early-stage cancers.
Japan's Early Cancer Screening Health Checkup takes "PET-CT" as its core technology, and combines ultrasound, nuclear magnetic **** vibration, and biochemical tests for precise screening, which can thoroughly detect more than 300 types of early cancers common to the whole body at once.
The whole medical checkup system is divided into 6 levels, which are in-depth and combined with multiple means, so that there is no place for cancer cells to hide.
Level 1: Whole Body Physical Examination, which helps to determine the appearance of tumors by examining a number of physical indicators of the body.
Tier 2: Biochemical index examination, which helps to determine the signs of tumor by checking the biochemical indexes of many body organs.
Tier 3: Tumor Markers, which uses 21 markers that are three times more than the normal seven tumor markers to more accurately discover cancer information.
Tier 4: equipment examination, using CT, MRI, ultrasound tomography, barium meal and other high-precision medical equipment, targeted detection of cancer in different organs.
Tier 5: Whole body screening, PET on-site production of personalized developer whole body scanning active cancer cells.
Tier 6: Clinical examination, consultation by Japanese experts with rich clinical experience to realize early detection and treatment.
Japan's cancer screening is known for its high detection rate, with tumors as small as one millimeter not being able to "escape.
Data show that Japan's five-year cancer survival rate has reached 62.1 percent, almost matching the 66 percent rate in the United States, and twice the 30.9 percent rate in China.
High-end equipment global leader
Japan's high-end medical equipment in the world's first, look at the data:
According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) statistics, Japan has 92.6 units of computed tomography (CT) scanning equipment per one million people, far more than the U.S. 32.2;
Japan has a million people per million nuclear magnetic ** ** vibration imaging (MRI);
Japan has a million people per one million people with a nuclear magnetic ** *** **vibrational imaging (MRI) equipment about 40, compared with 28 in the U.S. and only 7 in Germany.
Some people have said that we have the same level of high-end instruments at home.
I don't deny this at all.
The instrument is high-end hardware, then the technology is considered soft high-end it.
What we are talking about here is PET CT, which is used for cancer screening.
Japan's PET imaging technology is the best in the world, and the use of F-18 as a contrast agent is so low in radiation that there are on-site contrast agent production studios in the basements of medical checkup centers in Japan.
Doctors make the contrast agent on-site every day according to appointments, which ensures the sensitivity of the agent and can accurately detect early cancer cells.
China has the basic technology to make PET-specific contrast agents, but general hospitals or medical checkup centers do not have the pharmaceutical technology to make contrast agents on site.
The agents need to be transported long distances from specialized pharmaceutical companies, and their sensitivity is greatly reduced after more than 2 hours.
Specialized
Most of China's hospitals are very powerful, so it's not that we have fewer advanced medical devices in the country, it's that we have too few professionals who can operate them.
China and Japan will have a higher level of doctors who can determine cancer by drawing a picture with the same level of instruments, and Japan will have a higher level.
The physical examination is not only to examine, but also to read, which requires the doctor's "interpretation ability".
An experienced doctor will interpret the same film differently than an inexperienced one.
Sometimes a subtle lesion is accidentally missed, and if it's not 'interpreted', it's a waste of time.
Japan's system of Society specialists and supervising physicians ensures an average level of medical skills among doctors.
Doctors and medical-related personnel are highly qualified and specialized. There is a long history of specialty societies, from basic research to clinical.
The high threshold for admission to the Faculty of Medicine ensures the quality of doctors, and the diagnosis and treatment of diseases generally follow the Society's guidelines to ensure the quality of diagnosis and treatment.
And is committed to the peripheral specialties (examination technicians, nurses, nurses, rehabilitators, medical affairs personnel and other professionals) training, professional subdivision and the implementation of technical certification, and has a rigorous graduation examination system.
A qualified "medical grade medical checkup" must be accomplished by both sophisticated examination instruments and experienced medical examiners***. It is precisely because of this efficient, precise medical examination and disease prevention, screening awareness of the popularization, so that Japan has become the world's leading cancer prevention and treatment business, but also worthy of our big country's deep thought.