Breast cancer treatment should be to create a new concept

With the lifestyle, eating habits and environmental factors, changes in the incidence of breast cancer each year in the last 30 years has increased by about 2% -3%, become a threat to women's health, "the number one cancer killer," the Ministry of Health has listed breast cancer Cancer is one of the priorities in China.

Cancer Hospital, according to Jin was admitted to statistics, Heilongjiang Province, 25 to 35 years the incidence of breast cancer for women 10 years, an increase of 10.7%, in the province each year nearly 6,000 new breast cancer cases, about 15% of female malignancies. The vice president, director of breast surgery, said Professor Pang Da, after diagnosis of breast cancer, such as active as soon as possible standard treatment, and based on individual characteristics of "custom" well-established treatment programs, you can get a higher cure rate of breast cancer to achieve a "peaceful coexistence." Refrain from treatment because of various concerns, or listen to rumors refuse to random drug, not only delayed their condition and may cause disease progression or relapse.

Recently been disclosed by the media of women breast cancer incidence rate increased, the news of younger age of onset tends to cause a lot of people uneasy, and the international magazine published study shows that environmental factors influence the incidence of breast cancer over the impact of genetic factors Therefore, some experts predict, as more and more rural women into the city, and urban women are more the influence of Western culture, urban and rural women, the incidence of breast cancer will be further increased.

However, bad news in a variety of frustrating at the same time, people should see this fact: the current European and American countries, though still rising breast cancer incidence, mortality rates have started to decline, because on the one hand more and more patients can be found in the disease early, on the other hand due to the continuous progress of treatment.

Affiliated Hospital of Military Medical Sciences (Beijing 307 Hospital), MD, Cancer Center, the Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology Cancer Chemotherapy Committee of the Standing Committee Jiang Zefei recently in an interview that in recent years the concept of the international treatment of breast cancer has made great progress , there has been an increasing number of new drugs, new treatment information and the combination of science and humanity of modern breast cancer prevention and control of new ideas, that makes the treatment of breast cancer treatment in the present of all the fastest growing and most effective.

Direction as the pursuit of breast-conserving

The topic of breast conservation in breast cancer surgery two years ago to become a concern, but in the last couple of years, this surgery, there has been great progress. Jiangda Fu said that there is sufficient evidence that the tumor three centimeters or less in patients with early breast cancer, for breast-conserving treatment and removal of the breast, the cure rate and survival rate are the same. The terms of the early patients, for minor surgery breast conservation, both to ensure efficacy, but also to maintain a good body, will greatly improve the quality of life. The current treatment modalities range of fundamental change is shrinking surgery, contraindications for breast conservation has also been a great breakthrough.

Such as the relatively large mass of patients, now through drug treatment before surgery to tumor size, the same with breast-conserving opportunities. And advanced radiotherapy equipment and technology, enough to keep the breasts to be more fully uniform irradiation, the site of radiotherapy, an area of ​​more precise, stereotactic radiation therapy to eradicate residual tumor cells, its role and mastectomy quite effective. Breast-conserving surgery in the past few years quite a few breast centers and specialty hospitals has reached 30% to 40%, can be said that considerable progress is being forward to the international level.

Changes in quality of life in the new medical drugs

Jiangda Fu said, and now breast cancer treatment are: surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, endocrine therapy and new biological treatment. The importance of surgical treatment Needless to say, and the current chemotherapy and endocrine treatment of this systemic treatment for the success, thanks to new drugs for breast cancer chemotherapy and endocrine continuous development and research. Jiangda Fu said, breast cancer endocrine therapy is the treatment of endocrine tumors the most mature and most effective, the longest history, the advantage of less toxicity, less conducive to long-term treatment, so whether after early breast cancer prevention of recurrence, or late rescue treatment of patients, systemic treatment of endocrine therapy in breast cancer have a very important position. Now the latest successful development of drugs for endocrine therapy, not only to prevent the transfer of small, but also to greatly improve the survival rate of patients.

With the completion of the Human Genome Project, cancer research into the molecular era, human beings can go study at the molecular level the development of breast cancer and other malignancies, but also at the molecular level design of new drugs against different targets. Guide doctors through the completion of the development of the individual with the predictability of standard treatment programs to achieve increased the overall level of breast cancer treatment, improve patient quality of life.

The field of human care into the treatment

Person is ill patients, doctors are saving lives, if the doctor saw the patient, but not people, then medicine and then clever, it will not achieve good results. As a breast specialist in the field of exploration over a decade of doctors, Dr. Jiang Zefei deeply with insights. He said that more care about the past, drugs and medical scalpel treatment often ignore the existence of the individual patient, but it is precisely the concept of modern health care to emphasize the relevance of individual breakthroughs, often with strong human color . Such as doctors in the treatment plan for patients, they should stand in the position of the patient, from the patient's tolerance, affordability and other economic considerations, and ultimately the development of a best solution. In addition, doctors can reduce the psychological pressure of patients to provide good help. Jiangda Fu said that he always tell the patient, who had the disease, not always patient, so he encourages patients to resume family life as soon as possible, within its capacity to engage in some work, as soon as possible to help patients remove the heavy ideological burden.

Resection has also become a means of preventive

The latest reports, the occurrence of mutations in cancer risk for women was more than 60%, which is part of the early removal of a breast of women can prevent breast cancer. Jiangda Fu said, it sounds incredible, but it is indeed a valid way to prevent breast cancer and has been accepted by women in Western countries, while the detection of gene mutation is very easy, can be learned through blood test. He said the gland surgery is reserved for breast reconstruction after skin. This approach is also extremely rare in China at present, but as a concept, it at least in the prevention of breast cancer provides us with an idea.

Jiangda Fu said, doctors sometimes more than the concept of updating the update professional knowledge is more important, especially in the field of breast cancer treatment, the application of new ideas of modern science and technology to more patients will yield greater benefits, so accept the new knowledge , new ideas should be common to do.

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