When talking about cancer, everyone is sighing and shaking their heads because it has been haunting people like a nightmare for thousands of years. Even though there are many treatment drugs and methods available, the painful and agonizing process of treatment makes people talk about it. Admittedly, the topic of cancer is almost always heavy, and cancer patients and their families bear too much of the unbearable weight of life. In this article, we will take a look at advanced cancer and the various aspects of cancer pain.
When talking about cancer, everyone is sighing and shaking their heads because it has been haunting people like a nightmare for thousands of years. Even though there are many treatment drugs and methods available, the painful and agonizing process of treatment makes people talk about it. Admittedly, the topic of cancer is almost always heavy, and cancer patients and their families bear too much of the unbearable weight of life. In this article, we will take a look at advanced cancer and the various aspects of cancer pain.
Cancer pain is a malignant tumor that grows malignantly and is not under the control of the body, and when it invades the peripheral nerves or presses the peripheral tissues, it will cause pain in the body. However, not all late-stage cancers will have pain, only some of them metastasize to bone, spinal cord, brain, press nerve root, metastasize to liver or primary liver cancer patients, and the pain caused by liver periosteum will be more serious, like bladder cancer patients will not have pain. There are also some pains that are not caused by cancer but by previous diseases, so they cannot be generalized.
Cancer pain is defined as pain caused by malignant tumors, tumor-associated lesions, and anticancer treatments. Cancer pain can be categorized according to pathophysiological mechanisms: injury-sensing pain and neuropathic pain. Pain is categorized into acute and chronic pain according to the duration of onset. The incidence of pain in patients with first diagnosis of cancer is about 25%, while the incidence of pain in patients with advanced cancer can be up to 60%-80%, of which 1/3 of the patients have severe pain.
In general, most cancers such as breast cancer, liver cancer, stomach cancer, lung cancer and other advanced tumors directly invade and compress local tissues, or tumor metastasis involving bone and soft tissues, etc. will have the symptom of pain, and more than half of them are very intense, which is difficult for patients to endure. It is best to alleviate the pain by preparing opioid painkillers in advance. For example, morphine and tramadol work very well. In addition, cancer pain can also consider the application of Yanxiang analgesic capsule, strong pain relief of traditional Chinese medicine, etc., along with anti-tumor Chinese medicine co-treatment.
For patients with cancer pain, routine and comprehensive assessment of cancer pain should be carried out, which is the prerequisite for reasonable and effective pain relief treatment. Generally speaking, the treatment methods for cancer pain include etiologic treatment, drug treatment and non-drug treatment. For patients with advanced cancer pain, pain relief treatment should be carried out under the guidance of doctors, and the types, usage and dosage of specific pain relief drugs should be formulated by doctors according to the specific conditions of the patients, who should take drugs regularly and should not adjust the drugs and dosage without authorization.
Thirdly, the treatment of advanced cancer is unlikely to cure patients with advanced cancer, but active treatment can generally prolong the life span of 1-3 years. The main methods of advanced cancer treatment are surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, targeted drug therapy, microwave ablation therapy, interventional therapy and radiofrequency treatment. In addition, the rise of Chinese medicine’s influence in the international arena in the past two years has brought new ideas and directions to the clinical treatment of advanced cancer in both Chinese and Western medicine.
Another important point is that personal psychological quality also affects the state of cancer patients. Patients with good psychological quality can treat their condition correctly and will not experience great emotional fluctuations, and often have better treatment effects and better mental state. On the other hand, some patients, even in the early stage when the cancer has not spread, are still sullen, and their mental state is not as good as that of patients with a positive mindset, which, on the contrary, leads to a drastic reduction in their life expectancy.
In addition, there are also some cancers that as long as the growth and development of the tumor and its proliferation can be controlled, the patient can survive with the tumor and prolong his life, and the patient’s symptoms can be relieved. Therefore, if early stage patients can be detected, diagnosed and treated early, most of them can be completely cured of the disease through radical surgical resection.
Cancer prevention is more important than treatment for any disease, and cancer is no exception. First of all, we should quit smoking and limiting alcohol, smoking is related to dozens of cancers in human body, and for people with liver disease, they should absolutely quit drinking, and if they still smoke and drink alcohol after the occurrence of cancer, it will lead to poor therapeutic effect and accelerated metastasis; secondly, we should have a good mentality to face life, and psychologically, the character of people is divided into A, B, and C, and the C-type character is also known as the depressive character, and the incidence of cancer in this kind of people is obviously high; thirdly, we should have regular exercise. Third, regular exercise, exercise can enhance a person’s immunity will also make a person’s mentality become more optimistic, which is conducive to inhibit the body cells cancer; Fourth, to eat a regular and healthy diet, now many people change the rhythm of life, do not eat breakfast and excessive dinner, which is very detrimental to the digestive system; Fifth, pay attention to the medical checkups, the prevention of cancer is extremely relevant to the discovery of time, the earlier the discovery, the more favorable the prognosis. The earlier it is detected, the more favorable the prognosis is, and all medical checkups are very important.
I hope that everyone will pay attention to cancer, prevent it, and not to overdraw their health while they are young.
