In daily life, we often hear some people talk about: so-and-so has regular physical examination every year, exercises regularly on weekdays, and pays attention to healthy eating. Why she has cancer now. It seems that regular physical examination is of little use, but is it really useless? The following are some common cancer screening methods. I believe you will know what to do after reading it.
2 1 century, with the improvement of people's living standards, healthy body is very important to everyone's quality of life; Coupled with the past epidemic, we deeply find that the traditional concept of health is "no disease is health", the modern concept of health is overall health, and health is the first wealth in life.
However, although everyone knows the importance of health, it seems that everyone still does not fully realize the necessity of regular physical examination; In terms of physical examination, everyone still maintains the inherent concept that it is a waste of money to go to the hospital for treatment after an irregular physical examination. Many diseases have no obvious symptoms in the early stage, or even no symptoms, so going to the hospital for treatment after symptoms appear often delays the best treatment period.
Say so much, not to scare people who don't want to have a physical examination. We often see in TV news reports that the incidence of sudden death among young people is getting higher and higher. They sometimes feel chest pain and panic, but many people don't really care about the signals sent by these bodies. How should they go to the hospital to do the corresponding inspection measures?
Therefore, when we feel unwell, we should go to the hospital for physical examination in time, instead of continuing to overdraw our health with luck, so even if we are busy at work on weekdays, we should go to the hospital for physical examination regularly.
Now the incidence of cancer among young people is getting higher and higher. They are often busy with work on weekdays and don't care about regular physical examination. Therefore, when they got sick, they didn't find the condition early, which delayed the best treatment period.
Health is the capital of revolution. Even a billionaire, if his health collapses, it is useless to earn more money. So don't take being busy as an excuse not to pay attention to his health, which is why he has always stressed the importance of a comprehensive physical examination.
Diseases are like time bombs lurking in our bodies. Only by going to the hospital regularly for comprehensive screening, early detection and intervention can we overcome the disease and have a healthy body. Many people don't realize the importance of physical examination. The following summarizes several contents about the importance of physical examination. I hope everyone can keep it in mind.
Physical examination is not a formality, but also allows us to have a clear understanding of our physical condition. Many patients with malignant tumors did not find anything abnormal at the beginning, and they were diagnosed only after going to a physical examination or seeing other diseases.
Therefore, early prevention of diseases plays a vital role. Only when the disease is detected in time can the harm of the disease to the body be eliminated as soon as possible, and it can be controlled from the source to avoid the harm caused by the deterioration of the disease.
According to the analysis of global cancer statistics in 2020, there will be a total of 9.29 million new cancer cases in the world in 2020, including 4.75 million cases in China, accounting for 23.7% of the world. Most of the reasons may be related to China's culture and eating habits.
According to national statistics, the top ten new cases are: lung cancer, colorectal cancer, gastric cancer, breast cancer, liver cancer, esophageal cancer, thyroid cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer and cervical cancer. These ten cancers account for more than half of the new cancer cases, regardless of gender. The most common cancers are lung cancer, gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, liver cancer, esophageal cancer, thyroid cancer and pancreatic cancer. Men are prone to prostate cancer, while women are prone to breast cancer and cervical cancer.
According to statistics, the cancers with the highest mortality rate are: lung cancer, liver cancer, gastric cancer, esophageal cancer, colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, leukemia and cervical cancer. Through the data, it is clearly found that lung cancer, liver cancer, gastric cancer, esophageal cancer, colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer and cervical cancer are all included.
Take thyroid cancer as an example. Although the incidence rate is high, the mortality rate is low. Generally, thyroid cancer can be treated. Don't think that cancer is hopeless. Some cancers can be cured if they are found early and treated in time. For example, the incidence of leukemia is very low, but once suffering from leukemia, the mortality rate is extremely high, so don't think that cancer is an incurable disease. Only regular comprehensive screening can timely intervention and treatment be carried out.
(1) The first is lung cancer, which always ranks first, so screening for lung cancer is very important. The routine screening of lung cancer is chest X-ray, which is very cheap, about 100 yuan.
However, chest X-ray examination is not easy to find early lung cancer, and it is easy to miss diagnosis and misdiagnosis.
Therefore, the real lung cancer examination needs chest CT. There are many types of chest CT, including low-dose CT recommended by many people at present. It is believed that the less radiation, the safer the better. But in fact, many hospitals do not do low-dose ct, but directly do conventional general CT scanning. The price is several hundred yuan, ranging from 400-700 yuan, which varies from place to place.
If the chest CT scan finds problems, the CT scan can be further enhanced. But for the screening of lung cancer, a flat chest CT scan is enough, and a few hundred yuan can be completed. People over 40 can do it once a year, and the radiation dose is not large. If no problems were found before, they are found now, usually in the early stage, so the success rate of treatment is much higher.
Colorectal cancer is a common tumor in gastrointestinal tract, ranking second among new cases in 2020, and the incidence rate is the highest among people aged 4 1 ~ 65.
There is only one effective way to find colorectal cancer early, and that is colonoscopy. It is easy to be misdiagnosed by observing whether there is blood or constipation in feces. Once in doubt, colonoscopy must be performed. Because some cancers have no obvious symptoms in the early stage, I don't know if there is any problem without colonoscopy.
(3) Gastric cancer, needless to say, gastric cancer, everyone knows that a gastroscope is needed to check clearly. Gastroscopy directly enters from the oral cavity and goes deep into the gastric mucosa. In order to see if there is ulcer, there is no way to judge whether there is gastric cancer by ordinary hepatobiliary pancreatic spleen ultrasound. Don't think that you can relax after visceral color Doppler ultrasound, you must do gastroscopy.
Speaking of gastric cancer, let's talk about esophageal cancer. Because the discovery of esophageal cancer is also diagnosed by gastroscope, we can see esophagus, stomach and duodenum when doing gastroscope. The price difference between gastroscope and enteroscope is not big. It is best to do it once over 40 years old.
If there are high-risk factors (such as family relatives with gastric cancer, gastritis, stomachache, etc.). ), it is more recommended. If you do it for the first time and find it clean, do it again in 3-5 years, without having to do it every year. If you find any problems, please follow the doctor's advice for review.
(4) Breast cancer is basically a kind of cancer that only women have, and men also have it, but it is relatively rare, so no one will check men, basically all of them are women, and the price is similar, probably around 300 yuan.
The high incidence of breast cancer is between 45 and 50 years old, but it gradually increases from the age of 20, and it is rare under the age of 20. Women over the age of 35, it is best to do it once a year. If there is no high-risk situation, you can do it once every two years.
(5) liver cancer. The most common causes of liver cancer are hepatitis B, hepatitis C and alcoholic hepatitis. Without these factors, the possibility of liver cancer is relatively low, so patients with hepatitis must be treated well.
The screening method for liver cancer is actually relatively simple. Just do an abdominal ultrasound. Look straight at the liver, gallbladder, pancreas and spleen. Now ultrasound is also very sensitive. As long as there is liver cancer, even if it is small, it can be found by color Doppler ultrasound.
Patients with hepatitis B, hepatitis C and alcoholic hepatitis. Do a liver color ultrasound examination once a year. There is no such disease, but it is best to do it once a year. After all, color ultrasound is not expensive, uncomfortable and harmless. Color Doppler ultrasound100-around 200 yuan.
It is best to do abdominal CT for pancreatic cancer screening, so that you can see more clearly. The price of CT is also several hundred yuan. It is helpful to do CT once a year, but pancreatic cancer progresses very quickly.
(8) Prostate cancer is a common tumor in elderly men, and it is rare in young adults. However, from the perspective of screening, it is relatively easy to operate, because once a year, you can do color Doppler ultrasound of abdomen, urinary tract and thyroid gland at the same time, and you can see prostate and bladder, which is relatively cheap.
But it is not very good to find early prostate cancer by color Doppler ultrasound. It is better to do CT or MRI, which is more expensive. Because elderly men are very common, there is no need for middle-aged men to have an annual physical examination.
(9) Cervical cancer, which is a gynecological tumor. It is suggested that women who have sex should have an annual examination of TCT and human papillomavirus in order to find the lesions early. If it is normal for several years in a row, the later screening time can be extended to 2-3 years, and it is also several hundred yuan at a time.
Don't think that only middle-aged women will get cervical cancer. Cervical cancer also exists at the age of 30 or even 20. Therefore, gynecological examination and transvaginal ultrasound examination should be carried out every year.
Now that HPV vaccine is available, eligible women should be vaccinated as much as possible.
To sum up, in order to find and treat these common cancers as soon as possible, if you haven't had a physical examination this year and are over 40 years old this year, I suggest you go to the hospital to do these items: chest ct, abdominal ultrasound (or direct abdominal CT), thyroid and breast ultrasound, gastroscope, colonoscopy, gynecological examination (female). This is an auxiliary inspection, and the cost is about 4000-5000 yuan.
If you had a gastroscope last year, you wouldn't want to do it this year, and the cost can be almost halved. Do a urine routine to see if there are red blood cells, which is helpful to judge urinary tract bleeding and screen stones or tumors.
You can also leave feces to see if there is occult blood, which is of certain significance for judging whether there is colorectal cancer. Generally speaking, the cost of the first physical examination will be higher, to about 5000 yuan. The second time may be 3000 yuan, which is much cheaper.
Health is the most important thing for people. If a person's body collapses, he can't do anything. So everyone should pay attention to their health. Don't think that you don't have to have a regular physical examination if you are in good health on weekdays, so you are hurting yourself.
Each of us should be responsible for our own health and have regular physical examinations. A healthy body is more important than anything else. Only when the body is free from disease can we do more. Therefore, everyone should learn to pay attention to their own bodies, and having a good body is more valuable than anything else.