To prevent cancer recurrence, pay attention to 4 fundamental issues!

To prevent cancer recurrence, pay attention to 4 fundamental issues

In anti-cancer treatment, the tumor shrinks significantly after chemotherapy or radiotherapy, and the disease enters the remission period.

But after a period of time, the shrunken tumors relapse, causing pain and threats to patients who are recovering or have recovered.

Recurrent tumors tend to grow faster than the primary tumors and are less sensitive to, or even resistant to, chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Therefore, after the tumor is cured or controlled, we must pay attention to preventing recurrence. The rapid metastasis of recurrent cancer cells is the main cause of death in cancer patients.

Cancer patients generally have a higher probability of recurrence and metastasis within 0 to 3 years after treatment, and this probability will gradually decrease thereafter.

Once recurrence and metastasis occur, there is currently no ideal treatment method in the medical community.

Therefore, preventing tumor metastasis and recurrence is the key to determining the success or failure of treatment.