In recent years, the incidence of cancer has shown an increasing trend in the world, and China has naturally become the country with the largest number of cancer patients because its population base ranks first in the world.
Relevant data studies show that more than 4 million new cancer patients are diagnosed in China every year, and nearly 3 million people die of cancer every year.
What is this concept?
That is to say, cancer has long since changed from a rare disease in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China to a common disease, and unlike other chronic diseases, cancer has a very high risk of death, and the later malignant tumors are found, the higher the mortality rate of patients.
In particular, malignant tumors such as lung cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, and liver cancer remain high in China. If you want to prevent and treat cancer and reduce the mortality rate of cancer to the lowest point, what patients have to do is to find malignant tumors at the earliest stage and actively cooperate with doctors for treatment.
Presumably, everyone has heard of a test called "blood routine", which is also the most basic clinical examination item, and it is also the most indispensable item in routine physical examination.
So the question is, can the blood routine detect cancer?
1. What is blood routine:
The blood routine is actually to judge the health of the blood and the direction of disease examination by observing the number of changes in the number of blood cells and the distribution of morphology in patients. Usually, the examination of blood routines mainly includes three major systems, namely the red blood cell system, the white blood cell system and the platelet system.
Many of its specific indicators are commonly used sensitive indicators, which have machine-sensitive responses to many pathological changes in the body, and have certain clinical reference value;
2. Cancer can be found in the blood routine:
It has to be said that the blood routine examination is indeed possible to find some cancerous changes, especially for the diagnosis of cancerous changes in the hematopoietic system, such as abnormal increase in red blood cells, which may be the manifestation of small diseases of bone marrow proliferation and polycythemia vera, and the abnormal decrease of red blood cells may be related to leukemia.
In addition, the increase or decrease of white blood cells and the increase or decrease of platelets are abnormal symptoms, which may be related to malignant changes in the hematopoietic system and bone marrow system;
3. Blood routine can not diagnose cancer:
As mentioned above, some malignant or myeloproliferative diseases of the hematopoietic system may be exposed under the examination of the blood routine, but the abnormal blood routine is not equivalent to the diagnosis of the disease.
You know, the reason why the blood routine is called routine is because it belongs to the basic information and elements of the physical examination signs project, and it only exposes the abnormal blood cell count. In order to diagnose what exactly the disease is, the next step of close examination is also required.
For example, clinically suspected patients have bone marrow growth diseases, and must undergo bone marrow puncture and pathological examination to confirm the diagnosis.
In fact, not only blood routine examinations, but even screening programs for other organs, such as gastrointestinal endoscopy, CT examination of the liver and kidneys or lungs, etc., can only find suspicious lesions and suspect the tendency to become cancerous, and doctors will not directly diagnose the lesions.
From a clinical point of view, the gold standard for diagnosing cancer is actually pathological biopsy. It can determine the specific situation of the foreign body, which includes the type of pathology, pathological staging, etc., which has an irreplaceable effect on the next step of diagnosis and treatment.
Of course, this is not to say that the blood routine is not necessary. Everyone should understand that any routine examination is actually to understand the health of the body.
After routine examinations find abnormalities, the doctor can be directed to the next step of examination and diagnosis. Therefore, everyone should actively cooperate with the doctor when seeking medical examination.