2019 data show that Americans 25 years, the cancer mortality rate down 27%, the reason behind the amazing decline in mortality is that Americans pay attention to the health situation, the popularity of cancer mortality screening, as well as the United States of America's biotechnology and the development of a strict tobacco control system, as well as the United States team of doctors to take care of the patient's feelings, which have greatly improved the survival rate of patients.
Decrease in Cancer Mortality Rates for Both Men and Women
I. Popularization of Cancer ScreeningRates in the United States
Americans believe that health is the root of everything, so they follow a strict medical checkup system every year, especially For cancer, which is a killer of death, it is screened every other year, which makes Americans get timely treatment once they find abnormal cells in their bodies, and for cancer patients, the earlier the cancer cells are found, the higher the possibility of a cure.
The U.S. cancer screening rate rose from 21% in 2000 to 60% in 2015, and in the 25 years since then, the cure rate for breast cancer has risen by 39%, for prostate cancer by 53%, for colorectal cancer in women by 44%, and for colorectal cancer in men by 47%. Behind this string of promising data, it is all due to the popularity of the cancer screening rates.
In the United States, especially for some people with a family history of cancer screening is more stringent, some people even the body cells have not yet occurred lesions, but because of a certain organ has a high risk of cancer, and even early will be this part of the relevant resection surgery, which also greatly reduces the outbreak rate of cancer.
American famous star Angelina Jolie just because there is a serious family history of cancer, go to the hospital to do cancer screening, the doctor just think she may be suffering from the early stages of cancer, Jolie did ovary and fallopian tube removal surgery.
Two, advanced biotechnology
Even with cancer, most patients in the United States can recover their health, because the United States has the world's most advanced biotechnology and a large number of biological scientists, the U.S. government is a strong supporter of the research and development of a large number of targeted drugs, immunotherapy, and other means, it is these advantages, so that the U.S. cancer New drugs as well as new therapies lead the world.
About 48.7% of the world's new drugs are being developed in the U.S. The U.S. has developed and marketed 96 targeted and immune drugs, and the U.S. is second to none when it comes to clinical trials, with nearly 300,000 clinical trials registered globally, about 40% of which are being conducted in the U.S.
The U.S. government has supported the development of a large number of targeted drugs and immunotherapy.
So many celebrities or rich people, once they have cancer, choose to go to the United States for treatment, if the U.S. can not be cured, on behalf of the person basically hopeless, because the United States is the country with the most targeted and immune drugs, and has a wealth of clinical experience, the U.S. advanced biotechnology is the hope of the global cancer patients.
Three, the implementation of a strict anti-smoking system
The United States in order to reduce the rate of cancer outbreaks in the implementation of a strict anti-smoking system, after more than four decades of efforts, the number of male smokers in the United States has been greatly reduced, and some of the public **** occasions because of the comprehensive ban on smoking, resulting in a great reduction in the probability of second-hand smoke, the tobacco control of the obvious benefits of the United States Lung cancer death rate has been greatly reduced,from 1990 to 2014, originally the number one killer of cancer lung cancer, the death rate fell by 43%.
Fifth, take care of the patient's feelings
American doctors pay special attention to the patient's feelings, cancer patients, if not have to be surgical treatment, the United States doctors basically will not recommend that the patient be hospitalized, the patient as long as to spend a few hours in the hospital to do the necessary treatments, the rest of the time can be with family members together, which makes the patient psychologically free from the pain of surgery.
Sixth, strict oncologist examination Fang and high cooperation of the treatment team
American doctors want to become a qualified cancer treatment doctor, is a very difficult thing, first of all, in medical school after four years of arduous study, and then also have 3 to 8 years of residency training, and finally to accumulate 2000 hours of surgical experience. hours of surgical experience, and only after these layers of rigorous testing can one become an oncologist assistant.
And American oncologists are a highly cooperative team, which is divided into oncologists, surgical oncologists, and radiation oncologists, each of whom plays their own specialties, making the team more capable of accurately judging the patient's condition and providing the most suitable treatment plan for the patient instantly, and finally ensuring that each patient can get the most suitable medical treatment.