Misunderstandings in the treatment of colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer is a common malignant tumor in the gastrointestinal tract, but if it is detected early and surgically cured in time, the prognosis is good, and the 5-year survival rate after early surgery is as high as 80%. However, many misunderstandings in treatment seriously affect the survival and treatment of colorectal cancer patients.

Insufficient attention paid to the prevention and treatment of precancerous lesions

Patients often lack awareness of or take chances with early symptoms of colorectal cancer, such as occult blood in stool, stool consistency and bowel movement regularity, and abdominal pain, which results in missing the best time for treatment.

Patients with surgical indications give up surgical treatment, delaying the treatment opportunity.

All colorectal cancers that can be removed should be radically resected as soon as possible if there are no surgical contraindications. However, due to various reasons, timely surgical treatment is not performed, delaying the treatment opportunity.

Patients with advanced colorectal cancer who cannot be treated with Western medicine seek treatment with traditional Chinese medicine

Regarding TCM treatment, clinicians often advocate early intervention and full-course intervention, and never wait until Western medicine is at its wits' end before seeking TCM intervention. If a combination of Chinese and Western medicine combined treatment can be adopted as early as possible, the prognosis of colorectal cancer is usually relatively good.

Believe that Chinese medicine can only relieve symptoms but cannot fight cancer

Most patients with advanced colorectal cancer believe that Chinese medicine can only relieve symptoms but not fight cancer, so they do not use Chinese medicine. Little do they know that the key to treatment for advanced tumors is to improve symptoms, relieve pain, and increase survival rate, rather than remove the tumor or eliminate the lesion.

Abandoning effective comprehensive treatment after symptoms are temporarily relieved or disappear

After local treatments such as surgery and radiotherapy, the symptoms are temporarily relieved or disappear, and the patient thinks the disease has been cured and gives up continuing effective treatment, which leads to symptom rebound or even cancer recurrence.