Post Date December, 03 2023
As early as 2006, cancer had become the first cause of death for urban and rural residents in China.
Today, when it comes to cancer, there are various theories circulating about cancer. Generally speaking, there are fewer errors than correctness.
Where are the hidden misconceptions, and how can they be avoided?
What are the misconceptions of cancer prevention?
If you want to know how to avoid entering a misunderstanding, you must first know where the misunderstanding is.
Should "cancer prevention" be considered only when one is getting older?
Wrong!
Young people can also get cancer.
Neuroblastoma, for example, mainly occurs in children. Moreover, at present, some middle-aged and elderly people have cancer, which has shown a trend of becoming younger. Therefore, cancer prevention should start from a young age.
"As long as you use anti cancer products, you won't get cancer."
Wrong!
In order to cater to people's desire not to have cancer, there are media or businesses that hype various anti cancer methods or anti cancer products.
The people do not understand the mystery, so they flock to it, unaware that this may just be a free gift to businesses.
Cancer is a multifactorial disease, a genetic level disease. When risk factors come from all directions, it is impossible to achieve the goal of completely blocking cancer by relying solely on one or two means of defense, and many of the "defense" promoted by businesses have not been recognized by professionals.
Is the increase in cancer simply due to the prolongation of people's lifespan?
This statement is not entirely true.
As the average lifespan of the population increases, the probability of human genetic mutations will indeed increase, but at the same time, cancer diagnosis and screening techniques are also continuously improving.
To make an analogy, in the past, people used to diagnose tumors as if they were looking through a telescope. Later, they changed to using the naked eye. Now, when they look through a microscope, they can discover many cancers that could not have been discovered.
A typical example is because the FDA has approved a test called prostate cancer specific antigen blood testing (PSA) for prostate cancer screening. Doctors can detect hidden prostate cancer patients by changing their values. Results Between 1986 and 2005, due to the emergence of PSA screening programs, more than 1.3 million hidden prostate cancer patients were detected in the United States.
Today, scientists continue to research more accurate cancer diagnosis methods, so more hidden cancer patients will be found in the future.
4. Non smokers also get lung cancer, so don't you have to quit smoking?
This is a big mistake!
Among people with lung cancer, there are indeed non smokers who do not smoke themselves, but may be victims of second-hand smoke.
There are 300 million smokers in China, but the number of victims of second-hand smoke has reached 700 million. Therefore, it is not surprising that non smokers develop lung cancer.
Whether smoking primary or secondary smoke, in addition to lung cancer, it can also cause other cancers, as one lung disease expert put it:
"There are two fees to pay for cigarettes, one for the money you pay for cigarettes, and the other for the physical discomfort caused by cigarettes."
Smoking is associated with 22% of cancer, and staying away from cigarettes can reduce the likelihood of cancer by at least 10-20%. Even if you smoke regularly, the likelihood of developing lung cancer after quitting smoking can be reduced by at least 15%.
Teach you 3 moves to avoid misunderstandings
1. Don't easily believe in ancestral secret and folk recipes
Most cancers are common only in modern times, and in ancient times there was either no corresponding prescription or the prescription could only have a certain effect on a certain direction of treatment for a certain type of cancer.
You should know that the treatment of our diseases is divided into symptomatic treatment and causative treatment, and the killing of tumor cells is causative treatment. As far as current research is concerned, it is basically impossible to completely defeat cancer by relying solely on so-called secret and folk recipes.
2. Don't believe individual cases, rumors, stories
Don't believe the stories made up by experts and the rumors that swindlers sell books and medicines. Even if miracles happen to the people around you, don't follow suit.
Whether you believe it or not depends on whether his words are based on credible data and evidence from a scientific perspective. Experts are not looking at their titles, but at their level.
3. Don't blindly follow the latest scientific research achievements
The "latest anti cancer achievements" in the media are basically a flash in the pan, mostly for the purpose of fishing for fame and defrauding research funds.
In the initial stages of these anti cancer experiments, safety was not considered. For example, when cancer was found to shrink in mice, it was likely that the reason was that the mice had caused the drug to become a cachexia that caused their bodies to collapse completely, and the cancer would not last long.
The same goes for the rumor of "starving to cancer" - after a cancer patient dies, all the cancers on his body have also died, and he still needs to be treated like this?
Therefore, the anti cancer therapy that can truly move from experimental to clinical trials and then be widely applied in hospitals is often selected through safety and effectiveness, often one in a hundred.
Cancer prevention and treatment is inherently a complex matter. It is difficult to achieve the goal of fighting and preventing cancer by relying solely on one or two "rumors". Increase vigilance and avoid misunderstandings. Don't let "black hearted" people pit their money and harm their health.
