Can cancer really be prevented?

Using 1 to prevent cancer is better than treating cancer before illness. The so-called "prevention before illness" means preventing problems before they happen. Cancer, too, should focus on prevention and nip in the bud. Traditional Chinese medicine in China pays the most attention to "prevention before illness", that is, prevention and health care. It can even be said that Chinese medicine is a kind of preventive health care medicine to some extent. However, in real life, China people do not seem to have inherited the concept of "preventing diseases" from their ancestors, and they are short-sighted and not short-sighted. They pay more attention to treatment than disease prevention and health care.

People in China are very ill, and there is no one who doesn't pay attention to it. The whole family went out and gave everything they had until they lost everything. It can be said that China people are really willing to invest in treatment, which is certainly true. If there is a disease to be treated, of course, we should put it into treatment. When you think about it, it is actually a "loss-making business". This kind of investment, its rate of return is very low, and there are great risks, because it is very likely that the money will hit Shui Piao. As the saying goes, "people and money are empty", some diseases will definitely pay off if they don't invest, and no amount of investment can be redeemed. On the issue of cancer treatment, money sometimes can't buy health and life. But why do most people still cling to this concept? The main reason may be that prevention is a long-term investment. I can't see the "benefits" in the short term, and subconsciously feel that it is not worth it. So you're lucky that cancer won't come to you on its own. Unfortunately, it is a strange circle that I began to realize the importance of prevention when I got cancer.

People in China are sometimes too clever, and cleverness leads to mistakes. This so-called shrewdness is actually a reflection of the concept of life consumption. For example, Americans are willing to spend money on fitness and disease prevention, but some people are unwilling to spend money on medical care, while China is the opposite. There is a saying that Americans spend 1, health care flowers 100, medical flowers 10 and rescue flowers 1, while China spends 1, health care flowers 10 and rescue flowers 654300. Often it is clearly the terminal stage of cancer, and there is nothing we can do. People in China often give everything or even lose everything to cure it. In the last few months or even days of their lives, they still desperately spend money to save lives that they can't save. However, when they are not sick, they are very stingy and reluctant to spend money.

The seemingly clever people in China are really "smarter than wiser" in treating diseases and preventing diseases, and they don't know how to settle accounts. Cancer should focus on prevention. You might as well learn to calculate economic accounts. If you don't want to invest in cancer prevention, you will lose everything in treating cancer. The investment in cancer prevention is not entirely money, but also energy and time. For example, some people know that many lifestyles are bad and may even cause cancer for the so-called work and career, but they still have the luck that cancer may not find them. They are willing to spend time on entertainment, smoking and drinking, staying up late for the so-called career, and eating irregularly, but they are unwilling to spend a little time climbing mountains and running with their children.

Of course, work is necessary, career is necessary, and making money is also necessary, but many things are not completely contradictory. Isn't it a tragedy that the first half is busy making money and the second half is busy treating cancer?

It is a positive conclusion that most cancers can be prevented. A study by China and the International Agency for Research on Cancer of the World Health Organization found that the behavioral and environmental risk factors related to cancer mainly include chronic infection, smoking and drinking. According to this study, about 60% of cancers can be avoided and prevented. Of course, nothing is absolute, we can never be perfect, so despite our 100% efforts, we may unfortunately get cancer, but this can never be an argument to deny that "cancer can be prevented." In order to avoid some people's obsession, a more accurate expression should be "most cancers can be prevented."

Of course, "can" does not mean "must". To turn "possibility" into reality, we need down-to-earth efforts to implement anti-cancer measures.

First of all, you must psychologically accept that cancer can be prevented. If you don't believe that cancer is completely preventable psychologically, of course you won't put it into practice. But how can we accept this idea? Some people just don't believe it, because there are many reasons not to believe that cancer can be prevented in real life. For example, the most typical example is that doctors don't say that smoking can cause lung cancer? But many people with lung cancer do not smoke, and many smokers do not have lung cancer. This is of course a reality, which is undeniable, but it is obviously a manifestation of "ignorance". Cancer can be prevented. How can you draw such a simple conclusion?

In order to convince everyone that cancer can be prevented, let's talk about some basis for cancer prevention.

Most cancers are closely related to the external environment, which has been discussed in detail in the previous chapter, and everyone knows it very well. Since most cancers are related to the external environment, obviously, the external environment can be changed. Of course, this external environment has both big and small environments. Therefore, to change the environment, we need to work together, and we need to start from a small place, that is, we must change both the surrounding environment and the individual itself. For example, smoking is an important carcinogen, so as long as you are willing to quit smoking, your chances of getting lung cancer, oral cancer and other cancers will be reduced. Of course, because the occurrence of cancer is the result of comprehensive factors, quitting smoking can't completely guarantee that you won't get cancer, so you need to make efforts in other aspects, such as not drinking too much, changing bad lifestyles and improving environmental pollution together, because environmental pollution is also an important cause of cancer such as lung cancer.

Recognizing that most cancers are related to environmental factors, that is to say, the risk factors leading to cancer mainly come from the environment, and the environment can be changed, which makes it possible to prevent cancer, which is also the most basic premise of "cancer can be prevented". If cancer is predetermined by heaven, it is doomed. No matter how hard you try, this is obviously a typical fatalism.

Changing the environment can reduce the incidence of cancer. The most typical statement is that developed countries such as Europe and America have realized that tobacco and unhealthy lifestyles are important factors leading to cancer. In recent decades, they have actively carried out smoking cessation and control actions and actively intervened in bad habits and lifestyles. Until today, the incidence of cancer represented by lung cancer began to decline; However, in China and other developing countries, the effect of smoking cessation and tobacco control is not good, coupled with the rapid development of industrialization, environmental pollution has not been well controlled, and the incidence of lung cancer and other diseases has shown an obvious upward trend.

There are regional differences in the incidence of cancer, which is also an excellent example of "cancer can be prevented". The incidence of lung cancer is generally higher in economically developed countries or regions than in economically underdeveloped or poor areas, usually higher in cities than in rural areas, and higher in coastal developed areas than in the mainland, which has a considerable relationship with industrialization and environmental pollution; The incidence of breast cancer and colon cancer is related to the improvement of living conditions and high-fat and low-fiber diet, which is higher in developed areas than in underdeveloped areas, while gastric cancer, esophageal cancer and cervical cancer are related to underdeveloped economic level and relatively poor living and sanitation conditions. Abnormal regional differences are essentially differences in environment and living habits. As long as the environment and living habits are changed, the incidence of related cancers will be changed.