Physical examination is not equal to cancer screening

The life of the modern urban stress for people too busy to attend to their health, while others on their health too self-confident – usually a cold are seldom, drinking, smoking, and nights out or feel anything.

Then they will say: "what health examination, it is not necessary. "Everyone knows, is such a Word, it is possible to let them lose the fight against the time of death, prematurely to their end of life.

Physical examination to the formal sector

Fortunately, in recent years, due to the threat of cancer has become urban residents "killer", many medical institutions to check for cancer into general medical projects, "depending on the physical absence of" people are gradually reduced.

However, in the face of market emerging medical institutions, various medical projects, people began to fall into another blind spot: what kind of medical institutions will be able to give the correct and timely diagnosis?

Chinese Academy of medical sciences, Director of the Cancer Hospital cancer section tells the life Zhijian Xu times "reporter such a case: a 42-year-old male patient took the initiative to do a physical examination, physical examination were diagnosed as" left renal Hemangioma "(benign); and a half months later, the unit just asked us to give workers, Oncology doctor suspected this tumor does not rule out the possibility of, it is recommended that patients go do a CT, results are confirmed for renal cell carcinoma.

As a result of treatment in a timely manner, has now fully recovered.

"The ongoing cancer medical examination body very much, but people don't ignore their medical level.

If you participate in the examination of the doctor is not a cancer specialist, most likely on cancer symptoms, signs, lack of awareness of the image, resulting in a misdiagnosed. And if possible, it is recommended that you try to go to hospital for examination in order to avoid unnecessary errors. "Zhijian Xu Director said.

Medical projects selected for individual

Journalists visited Beijing to see several medical examination Center for tumor of many, many of them like height, weight, eye-sight such general project, these checks, for diagnosis of tumors, the meaning is not very big.

Therefore, how to identify your most effective inspection project is very important.

Zhijian Xu told reporters, now commonly used methods include medical history and family history of assessment surveys, naked eye to see, touch, and other physical checks, chest x-ray and abdominal ultrasound scan, women's breast and gynecological examination.

Due to the examination of the vast majority are not object of clinical symptoms in healthy people, therefore some painful project, they are generally not willing to try, and price considerations, also some screening ability of instruments, such as spiral CT, etc, not in the ordinary scope of consideration. In such cases, examinees must according to own actual situation to consciously do some special check. "For instance over 50 years of age, daily smoking count × smoking > 400 years, it belonged to lung cancer in high risk populations, and should, as soon as possible a spiral CT and sputum cytology to help rule out cancer or found early, can cure cancer. "Zhijian Xu said.

Targeted screening meaning greater

Some people may also be a few years ago, Lee 媛媛, Anita Mui because something fresh in the untimely death of cancer – the two social soul.do not every year do health check? what to be discovered until late?

On August 7, "China health knowledge dissemination plan (cancer · 2006)" Press Conference, Professor Xu guangping Wei, Chairman of the anti-cancer Association once again emphasized: "the health check must not equal to screening! to truly ensure that cancer detection and early treatment, must be screening through to the end!"

While checking out the medical portion of patients with cancer early, but due to physical objects and the doctor's requirements are very high, so it's easy to "slip through" appears.

This is not only to patients, big bad for society, but also may cause a great waste of resources.

Professor Xu guangping Wei said, cancer screening is a healthy crowd for a type of cancer do special checks, with the aim of hope clinical onset before this cancer identified and confirmed, which makes it possible to cure the disease.

Therefore, the screening of the project must have a high sensitivity and specificity.

"Now, breast and cervical cancer is the most suitable for the screening of two cancer, China has also begun a screening project, and have achieved certain results.

And colon cancer screening effects in fact also very good, it will be we are going to carry out an important project, "said Professor Xu guangping confidently said:" I firmly believe that if we are able to carry out the screening work goes on, the cure rate of cancer patients in China will be able to improve, the cancer was captured soon! "

(Practice editing: plum and apricot)