Middle-aged and elderly people suffer from cancer in China among people over the age of 50 accounted for increased 90% | | | cancer centers for disease control and prevention _ news
The newspaper News (Chief Reporter Jie Schoepp) 15th World Cancer Day theme this year is "eliminating cancer myth". Municipal Center for disease control and prevention issued health alert yesterday afternoon to arouse public elimination requires lifelong medication in patients with cancer are younger, misunderstanding, realize early detection, early diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
Rising proportion of middle and old aged patients
Experts pointed out that, although an increase in the number of young cancer patients, but did not find cancer incidence increased probability of young people, the phenomenon or age of onset peaks down. Monitoring data show that of the municipal Center for disease control and prevention, cancer incidence in the city with no apparent young, currently Shanghai over 70 years of onset of 45%, 50-69 years old accounted for than one third and 50 years of age only to 13%.
Noteworthy is that proportion of elderly patients in the yearly rise, the proportion of young adults and adolescents in decline, which is "aging" trends. Even young crowd of breast, cervical and thyroid cancer also experienced this situation. After the age of 20, cancer incidence rates for all age groups are on the rise, but the rate of increase, rendering older tendency to rise faster. Young, the increase in cases is very limited, increased every year from only a few to a dozen.
Along with the early detection of cancer through physical examination and cancer screening, most cancers are discovered in advance, this increases the proportion of early cancer improves the chances of a cure, but also makes the patient's age at onset (diagnosis age is essentially) ahead by as much as 3-5 or even 10 years old, created a "cancer incidence rejuvenation" illusion.
Some "cause" the Urals
Cancer is a chronic non-communicable diseases, the cause of complicated, often multiple factors influence caused. Many carcinogenic factors found to date, but has a clear relationship, only smoking, passive smoking and lung cancer, laryngeal cancer, human papillomavirus infection and cervical cancer, a few species, and are not "necessarily" only increased the risk.
In reality, some people like to briefly summarize the cancer "etiology", misinformation or even misleading. Experts emphasized that irregular diet, chronic depression and unhealthy lifestyles, such as staying up late, mood indeed is cancer-causing factors, but "safe" and not as serious as imagined, most secondary causes. Carcinogenicity carcinogenic, carcinogenicity of iodized salt and milk for soy milk, has been confirmed as false talk. Used to drink milk and eat soy products does not cause cancer, breast cancer occurrence and recurrence can also play a clear role in prevention. Only the first catch "big head", such as quit smoking and avoid smoking, is a positive move to prevent cancer.
Today, most cancers, early stage cancer was able to cure, survival rates increased dramatically. Meanwhile, "cancer requires lifelong medication" misconception must be corrected. Experts stressed that more and more cancer was found in the early, some just need a simple resection of lesion to heal, no need extra treatment. Cancer requires lifelong medication and cancer cannot be cured are fallacious. After standard treatment of cancer patients, more attention was paid to review and follow-up. Even regular Chinese medicines and health products, no substantial long-term ingestion of the principle, it is easy to cause liver and kidney damage. Now increasingly advocated during the rehabilitation period in patients with cancer live a normal healthy life, in addition to the normal diet and schedule also includes work, travel fitness, sexuality and parenthood, such as husband and wife. To restore confidence, healthy and happy life is the best "health".
(Original title: "cancer medication for life" is a fallacy)
February 09, 2014 Xinmin evening news
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我国中老年人患癌比例上升 50岁以上人群占9成 |癌症|比例|疾病预防控制中心_新闻资讯
本报讯 (首席记者 施捷)今年第15个世界癌症日主题为“消除癌症误区”。市疾病预防控制中心昨天下午发布健康提示，希望市民消除癌症正在年轻化、患者需要终生服药等认识误区，真正实现癌症的早发现、早诊断、早治疗。
中老年患者比例上升
专家指出，虽然年轻癌症患者数量有所增多，但并未发现年轻人癌症发病概率增高，或发病年龄高峰下移的现象。市疾病预防控制中心的监测数据表明，本市癌症发病没有明显的年轻化，目前上海70岁以上发病的占45%，50-69岁的占42%以上，50岁以下的仅13%。
值得关注的是，中老年患者的比例还在逐年上升，青壮年和少年儿童的比例在下降，即呈“老龄化”趋势。即便是年轻人群易得的乳腺癌、宫颈癌和甲状腺癌也出现了这种情况。20岁以后，各年龄段的癌症发病率都在上升，但上升的速率，也是呈现年龄越大上升越快的趋势。年轻病例的增多十分有限，仅从每年的几个增至十几个。
随着癌症早发现工作，通过体检和癌症筛查，多数癌症得以提前发现，这就增加了癌症的早期比例，提高了治愈的几率，但也使得患者的发病年龄(实质是诊断年龄)提前了3-5岁甚至10岁之多，造成了“癌症发病年轻化”的假象。
有些“病因”以讹传讹
癌症是一种慢性非传染性疾病，病因复杂，往往是多种因素综合影响导致。至今发现的可致癌因素众多，但有较明确病因关系的，也仅有吸烟、被动吸烟与肺癌、喉癌，人乳头状瘤病毒感染和宫颈癌等寥寥数种，而且也并非有“必然关系”，只是增加了患病风险。
现实中，一些人喜欢简单总结癌症“病因”，以讹传讹，甚至产生误导。专家强调，饮食不规律、长期熬夜、心情抑郁等不健康生活方式的确都是致癌因素，但“危害”并没有想象中的那么严重，多数只是辅助的诱因。至于豆浆致癌、碘盐致癌和牛奶致癌等观点，已被证实为不实之谈。常喝豆浆和食用豆制品不仅不会致癌，还可以对乳腺癌的发生和复发起到明确的预防作用。唯有先抓“大头”，比如戒烟及避免吸烟，才是预防癌症的积极之举。
时至今日，大多数癌症，特别是早期癌症已经能够治愈，生存率大幅提升。与此同时，“癌症需要终生服药”错误认识也必须纠正。专家强调，越来越多的癌症在早期被发现，有的仅需要简单手术切除病灶即可痊愈，完全不必额外治疗。癌症需要终生服药和癌症不能治愈一样同属谬误。癌症病人经过规范的治疗后，更应该重视的是复查和随访。即便是正规的中药和保健品，无原则的大量长期服食，也容易导致肝肾受损。现在越来越提倡癌症患者在康复期间就过上正常人的健康生活，除了正常的饮食和作息，还包括上班工作、旅游健身、夫妻性生活和生儿育女等。恢复信心、健康快乐的生活，才是最好的“保健品”。
(原标题：“得癌症要终生服药”是谬误)
2014年02月09日15:59
新民晚报
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