World Cancer Day: Unraveling your cancer

Fuzhou News Network February 4 every year February 4 is the International Alliance for Cancer Prevention and the World Health Organization, "Global Cancer Day."

Reporter yesterday from the provincial cancer hospital doctors learned that people have a lot of common understanding of cancer misunderstanding.

1. The misunderstanding of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: headache, tinnitus and nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients will have some atypical symptoms, such as a side of tinnitus and hearing loss or tears with blood and other symptoms. Some patients have only symptoms of headache.

2. Esophageal Cancer understanding misunderstanding: swallowing discomfort does not check.

Esophageal cancer patients often have 3 kinds of feeling: ① foreign body sense: generally in the swallowing when there is foreign body feeling, some people do not swallow will feel a foreign body inside the esophagus. ② choking: There is a sense of choking when swallowing food. This symptom can disappear on its own, but it will reappear after a few days or weeks and increase gradually. ③ pain: When eating, there will be burning, needle-like or friction-like pain in the back of the sternum and at the heart.

3. Lymphoma (lymphoma) cognitive misunderstanding: lymph node enlargement does not matter.

The early clinical manifestations of lymphoma and lymph node tuberculosis are very similar, both painless and lymph node enlargement. However, lymph node tuberculosis is in addition to swollen lymph nodes, but also the toxic symptoms of tuberculosis, such as flushing with the afternoon fever, swollen lymph nodes generally have tenderness.

4. Misunderstanding of thyroid cancer: painless goiter is not a hindrance.

Clinically, thyroid tumors are often manifested only as thyroid nodules. 20% of the individual nodules were malignant. The patient is generally not particularly unwell in the early stages.

5. Misunderstanding of lung cancer: Chronic cough does not check.

Middle-aged and elderly people continue to cough, with cough sputum, hemoptysis, should be promptly checked to the hospital, even non-smokers.

6. The breast cancer cognition misunderstanding: The lump does not ache is OK

About 10% of breast cancer patients were diagnosed without lumps, pain, or other abnormalities. Therefore, to develop the habit of regular self-examination and regular physical examination.

7. Colon cancer misunderstanding: anemia does not need to check the colon.

Patients with colon cancer usually have blood in their stools, but if the lesion is higher in the colon, the blood mixture is excluded and is difficult to see with the naked eye. If the patient is anaemic, should consider the big and occult blood examination.

8. Misunderstanding of rectal cancer: defecation is not the result of hemorrhoids.

Long hemorrhoids most although there is blood, but feces will not be thinner, flattened, the number of stools change is not obvious, and the blood color red. Rectal cancer patient feces will be thinner, flattened, the patient will be frequent, but will feel the row is not clean, blood is accompanied by mucus.

9. Cervical cancer misunderstanding: long vaginal bleeding has not been to the regular hospital.

The cervix has irregular bleeding when the cancer is ruptured, and sometimes sexual intercourse can cause bleeding. If the female discovers the vagina bleeds, must go to the normal hospital gynecology department to see a doctor.

(Fuzhou Evening News reporter Zhu Danhua)