How long can you live after skin cancer is cured

With the rapid development of medical technology, the scientific treatment of tumors is no longer limited to surgery. It is no longer a question of which method is better, radiotherapy, chemotherapy or drugs, but a personalized systematic treatment plan should be formulated according to the specific condition of each patient. Let's find out how long you can live with skin cancer.

1. Regarding the question of whether surgery is needed. The purpose of surgery is to quickly remove the cancer foci and cut off the reproduction and spread of cancer cells from the root. Therefore, it should be the first choice for the early and middle stages of localized cancer foci that have not spread, while for multiple cancer foci that cannot be completely removed or have already spread, it needs to be determined according to the specific situation. Some patients have very special cancer foci and surgery has great risks. At this time, it also needs to be determined according to the specific situation. In addition, some patients who are very old or in very poor physical condition, although they have indications for surgery, the surgical trauma may cause greater harm than cancer, so this situation also requires caution.
2. The question of whether radiotherapy and chemotherapy are needed. The main purpose of radiotherapy and chemotherapy is to control the reproduction of cancer cells by directly killing cancer cells and increasing the level of white blood cells in the blood in a stress-induced manner. It is mostly used to prevent the recurrence of cancer foci after surgery or to prevent the condition from deteriorating rapidly and requiring emergency control. Patients must not think that radiotherapy and chemotherapy are omnipotent, and some patients even become dependent on them. The main reason is that while radiotherapy and chemotherapy bring therapeutic effects, they also damage some normal functions of the human body, especially the inhibitory effect on bone marrow leukocyte hematopoiesis. Therefore, it is common for patients to get better as soon as radiotherapy and chemotherapy are done, and rebound as soon as they stop. Moreover, the effect gradually decreases as the number of radiotherapy and chemotherapy increases. This is a vicious cycle of blindly relying on radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Therefore, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are not a question of whether to do it or not, but a question of how to do it scientifically.