Understanding the Diagnosis of Cancer
If you have cancer then you may have questions about how serious your cancerousness and your possibilities of survival. It is anticipated how the disease will be for you, its diagnosis is called the diagnosis of the disease. Even for doctors, it is difficult to understand what is difficult to talk about in the future.
On this page
- Many factors can affect your diagnosis
- Getting information about your diagnosis is a personal decision
- Understanding Statistics on Survival
- If you decide not to treat
- Understanding the difference between treatment and relaxation
- Video series
Many factors can affect your diagnosis
Some of the disease-related effects include:
• Type of cancer and where it is in your body
• Cancer phase, which shows the size of cancer and if it has spread to other parts of your body
• The cancerous grade, which shows how unusual the cancer cells are under the microscope. The grade indicates how fast the chances of the cancer to grow and spread.
Some symptoms of cancer cells
• How healthy you were before your age and cancer
• How do you respond to treatment
Asking information about your diagnosis is a personal decision
When you have cancer, many of you and your loved ones are unknown. To understand your cancer and to know what is expected, you and your loved ones can get help in making the decision. Some of the decisions you face include:
• Which treatment is best for you
• If you want treatment
• How to best care for yourself and manage the side effects of treatment
• To deal with financial and legal matters
Many people want to know their predictions. When they know more about their cancer they seem easy to cope. You can ask your doctor about survival statistics or find this information on your own. Or, you can get confused and horrific statistics, and think that they are worth the price for you. It depends on you how much information you want.
If you decide that you want to know more, then the doctor who knows more about your situation, discuss your forecast and what statistics might mean, is the best condition.
If you need help to cope with your predictions, you can get our information about how to fight cancer.
Understanding Statistics About Existence
Doctors have speculated that researchers have collected statistics for people of the same type of cancer for many years. Several types of statistics can be used to predict the forecast. The most commonly used figures include:
• Cancer-specific existence
This is a specific type of patients and cancer levels that have not died from their cancer during a certain period after diagnosis. Duration of time can be 1 year, 2 years, 5 years, etc., is used frequently from time to time with 5 years. The specific existence of cancer is called disease-specific survival. In most cases, cancer-specific survival is based on the causes of deaths listed in medical records.
• Relative existence
This figure is another way to assess cancer-specific survival, which does not use information about the cause of death. This is the percentage of cancer patients, who do not have cancer compared to those who survive for a certain time after diagnosis.
• Overall survival
This is the percentage of people with a specific type and cancer level, who have not died due to any reason during a certain period after the diagnosis.
• Disease Free Survival
This figure is the percentage of patients who have no symptoms of cancer during a certain period of treatment. Other names of this figure are repetition free or progress-free life saving.
Since the figures are based on large groups of people, so they can not be used at all to estimate. everyone is different. The methods of treating and responding to treatment by people can vary greatly. Also, it takes years to see the benefits of new treatments and ways to find cancer. Therefore, your doctor is used to use the forecast, it can not be based on the treatment of today's use.
Even so, your doctor can tell you that if your statistics tell you that your cancer can respond well to the treatment, then you have a good forecast. Or, he can tell you that if cancer is difficult to control, then you have a poor prediction that your doctor tells you, keep in mind that a prediction is an educated guess. Your doctor can not tell how she will go for you.
If you decide not to cure
If you decide not to treat, then the doctor who knows your situation well, is in the best position to discuss the diagnosis of your disease.
Survival statistics often come from studies that compare instead of treatment rather than treatment, so it will not be easy for your doctor to give you precise forecasting.
Understanding the difference between treatment and relaxation
Treatment means that there is no trace of your cancer after treatment and cancer will never return.
Exemption means that signs and symptoms of your cancer decrease. Discounts may be partial or complete, with a full rebate, all the symptoms and symptoms of cancer have disappeared.
If you live in full relaxation for 5 years or more, then some doctors may say that you are healed. Nevertheless, some cancer cells can remain in your body for several years after treatment. These cells can return to cancer one day. For those who return to cancer, most do this in the first 5 years after treatment. But, there is a chance that the cancer will return later. For this reason, doctors can not say for sure that you are cured. As much as they can say, there is no sign of cancer at this time.
Because of this chance the cancer can return, your doctor will monitor you for many years and examine the symptoms of cancer withdrawal. They will also see signs of late side effects from the cancer treatment you received.
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