Breast cancer early cure rate of 90 percent

Every year in October is "breast cancer prevention month", also known as "pink ribbon month". But compared to other malignant tumors, breast cancer treatment effect is also increasing year by year, such as early diagnosis and treatment can be cured, the cure rate of up to 90%, so do not panic.

High incidence

Early treatment was significant

Data show that breast cancer has become the most common cancer in Chinese women, the incidence rate increased by 2.5% per year, the number of new hair and the number of deaths each year accounted for 12.2% and 9.6% of the world.

Zhang Zhuren, although the incidence of breast cancer in China has been living in the first female malignancy, but the mortality rate compared with other malignant tumors is low, only the sixth cause of cancer deaths. And breast cancer is one of the relatively good treatment of malignant tumors, if you can do early detection, early diagnosis, early treatment, is able to effectively reduce the mortality rate.

Now with the continuous progress of diagnosis and treatment technology, if the early detection of breast cancer, the patient's five-year survival rate of 90% or more, II and III breast cancer patients 10-year survival rate can reach 70%. Part of the late recurrence of patients with metastases, but also through targeted drugs and other means of treatment, effectively extend the survival time. Yiling hospital oncology, for example, due to the implementation of breast cancer precision treatment, the hospital treatment of breast cancer patients five years disease-free survival rate of 90% or more, the total survival of 10 years to 80%. The early breast cancer patients 5 years and 10 years of tumor-free survival rates were 98.2% and 94.5%, diagnosis and treatment technology in the country's leading level.

Younger age distribution

Young patients can choose breast conserving therapy

There are two peaks in breast cancer in China, the first one between 45 and 50 years old, and the other between 70 and 75 years of age, the average age of diagnosis is 45 to 55 years old, younger than Western women 10 years old. As China's population base, the absolute number of patients, the number of young patients is relatively large, 35 years of age accounted for about 10% to 15% of patients. This age-old age distribution makes breast cancer patients in China for "breast-conserving" surgery and "breast reconstruction" technology to put more demand.

"Breast-conserving" surgery is based on the lesion to remove part of the gland containing lesions, to retain the rest of the normal glandular tissue, and axillary lymph nodes appropriate treatment, so that patients do not have to experience the pain of breast loss. "Breast reconstruction" is through surgery, for the loss of breast patients to create a new breast, to ensure complete removal of lesions under the premise to meet its needs for the body to repair. However, due to the lack of attention of some patients and doctors, the current breast-cured rate of about 15%, breast reconstruction rate of less than 10%, far from the developed countries in Europe and America. Even in Shanghai, Tianjin, such a developed city, breast-cured rate is only about 20%.

"Breast-conserving surgery to retain the integrity of the breast at the same time, taking into account the functional recovery after surgery, combined with postoperative comprehensive treatment, treatment and breast cancer radical surgery for patients who can not carry breast conserving surgery can also be in breast cancer surgery At the same time for breast reconstruction, both to reduce the trauma, does not affect the follow-up treatment. "Zhang introduced.

Early diagnosis

Self-test can not replace anti-cancer screening

The sooner the breast cancer is found, the better the treatment is the fact that it is recognized. Domestic three-stage breast cancer surgery five-year survival rate of only 40% to 50%, IV is lower. However, due to some women's awareness of cancer is weak, breast cancer census failed to cover the whole population and other reasons, China's early diagnosis of breast cancer in stage I less than 20%, while in Europe and the United States and other developed countries is more than 80%. So the public to improve health awareness, regular breast self-examination and professional physical examination is necessary.

Need special attention is that self-examination must not replace the necessary anti-cancer physical examination. Early tumor is not necessarily obvious symptoms, it is difficult to timely detection, clinical often found that patients with early symptoms of breast cancer as mastitis and other diseases, delayed the best time to visit. In the Ridge Hospital of the Department of Oncology more than 6,000 cases of breast cancer surgery, early and mid-term patients accounted for seventy percent, but the self-examination found that less than 10% of early patients. But in anti-cancer physical examination found in cancer patients, more than 80% are early patients.

"Breast cancer routine diagnostic methods include doctors clinical palpation and imaging diagnosis, such as molybdenum target radiography, B ultrasound, these tests can play a role in the effective detection of early breast cancer." Zhang suggested that 35 The age of the following people should be preferred B-ultrasound; women over the age of 35 to do a regular annual breast x-ray examination, for the X-ray density of more than 50% of women need to jointly B-ultrasound; Breeding, menstrual cramps or early menstruation late breast cancer in high-risk groups recommended on the basis of mammography combined with B ultrasound or breast nuclear magnetic examination.