How can patients prevent recurrence and metastasis after cancer treatment? What should we pay attention to in our daily life?

The resurgence of cancer is often a headache for people. Hope is finally ignited, but then ruthlessly extinguished. How can patients prevent recurrence and metastasis after treatment? Before treatment, an experienced expert group including experts in surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and traditional Chinese medicine oncology should hold a consultation and discussion to develop a detailed, complete, systematic, and scientific treatment plan. Obviously, only comprehensive hospitals can provide the conditions to do this.

1. Surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy and targeted therapy are currently common and effective methods, but no single treatment method can cure cancer, and most of them require comprehensive treatment. Never think that everything will be fine after surgery or radical surgery.

Traditional Chinese medicine treatment is an important means to reduce the toxic side effects of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, improve the quality of life, and prevent recurrence and metastasis. However, it is generally not suitable to be used alone unless the disease is too advanced.

2. Any malignant tumor patient may have recurrence and metastasis at any stage after any treatment. Timely, careful and regular examinations may help to detect metastasis and recurrence early, so that measures can be taken to prevent further deterioration of the disease. Review includes self-examination by the patient and regular examinations by the hospital.

3. Studies have shown that an optimistic attitude, good nutrition and proper physical exercise are beneficial to maintaining human immune function, giving full play to anti-cancer activity, accelerating recovery and preventing recurrence.

Things to note in daily life:

1. Reasonable diet and balanced nutrition

Cancer patients have undergone surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and damage to their tissues and mucous membranes, and need a lot of protein to promote recovery.

The overall dietary principle is: eat a lot of fruits and vegetables, combined with an appropriate amount of meat. The diet should be reasonable, the nutrition should be balanced, and sufficient nutrition should be taken in reasonably. Do not eat or eat less food that may be harmful to cancer patients. Take small meals frequently, ensure that the ingredients are fresh, and eat more fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables.

2. Pay attention to adverse reactions of the digestive system

Take constipation for example. After surgery, chemotherapy, painkillers and other treatments, cancer patients experience slower gastrointestinal motility, reduced bowel movement, difficulty defecation, and dry stools.

At this time, you can drink more water and appropriately supplement with high-fiber foods such as fruits and vegetables.

3. Develop good living habits

Get enough rest and reasonable and adequate nutrition to improve the body's immune function and eliminate cancer cells in the bud. Patients should not drink alcohol during the recovery period, and excessive drinking is absolutely prohibited.

At the same time, patients should perform certain physical exercises during the recovery period, such as qigong, tai chi, jogging, etc.

First, through interpersonal communication during exercise, mutual communication and encouragement among patients will have a positive impact on their own emotions.

Second, exercise can significantly improve physical fitness and increase the body's resistance, so that the body and mind can be exercised at the same time, which helps patients recover quickly.

4. Reasonable care of the stoma

For some types of cancer, if an ileostomy or ureterostomy is done, it is important to clean the stoma and replace the urine collector/bag in time.

Failure to properly care for the stoma for a long time can easily lead to infection, and the odor emitted will have a certain impact on participation in social activities and make people lose confidence.

5. Stay away from factors that cause tumor recurrence

Actively treat chronic diseases related to tumors. The various physical and chemical factors and biological carcinogenic factors that have been mentioned many times before that cause tumors can still induce tumor recurrence, so these factors should be eliminated and avoided as much as possible.