Identify signs of cancer on your body

According to Dr. Do Trieu Hung, Director of Saigon General Hospital, most Vietnamese people have not focused on periodic cancer screening, so they detect the disease when it is in the late stage, high mortality rate.Every year, Vietnam has about 115,000 deaths from cancer, which means 315 people die every day.The number of new cases also increased rapidly from 68,000 in 2000 to 126,000 in 2010, expected to surpass 190,000 by 2020.

In order to repel cancer and reduce the death rate, Dr. Hung said that besides training a healthy lifestyle, it is necessary to instruct the community and health workers how to identify abnormal signs of the body. Early indications of cancer.

General features of cancer are prolonged abnormalities in the body. For example, constipation or diarrhea for several weeks, bloody stools, often a sign of colorectal cancer. Urinary symptoms are difficult, sharp or accompanied by blood, warning you to have bladder cancer. Non-healing ulcers on the face, skin, nipples, genitals, anus, eye conjunctiva or changes in mole properties may indicate skin cancer. Abnormal vaginal bleeding after intercourse warns cervical cancer. Breast tumors and axillary lymph nodes are signs of breast cancer. If you have abdominal tumors, eat indigestion, bloating, check that this is a stomach cancer symptom. Increased choking swallowing is common in esophageal cancer patients. When swallowing hard, entangled, painful, it is possible to have cancer. Long-lasting voices signal laryngeal cancer. Chest pain, persistent cough, coughing up blood warning lung cancer.

Doctors recommend that people in high risk groups should focus on routine screening.(Artwork: Wikihow).

"Early detection of cancer" is a specialized term for the community, but easy to understand but not simple to apply. According to Dr. Hung, in order to improve the effectiveness of early detection of cancer, it is necessary to carry out two things: education for early diagnosis and screening.

Screening is the use of simple tests or tests on healthy people in order to detect the disease without an external manifestation. Doctors recommend that people in high risk groups should focus on routine screening. For example, women from middle age should have a breast ultrasound or mammogram to screen for breast cancer, pap smears (pap's mear) to screen for cervical cancer. Older women and men should have a colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer .

Recently, there have been some quantitative tests of cancer markers such as PSA quantification, free PSA to screen for prostate cancer in men over 45 years old. CA15-3 quantification for breast cancer screening, CA125 detected ovarian cancer, CA19-9 checked stomach cancer, CA72-4 pancreatic cancer, NSE and Cypra-21 for lung cancer .

Usually metastatic cancer is very difficult to treat, high mortality and costly. If detected early, at the stage of non-metastasis, many cancers can be treated well and are less expensive. With today's medical advances, the ability to cure certain types of cancer has become a reality.

To determine the viability of a cancer patient, doctors often use the "survival rate of 5 years". According to the American Cancer Society, the life expectancy of more than 5 years has been sufficient to assess almost 100% success of a cancer treatment regimen.