According to statistics in Vietnam, the number of new cancer cases in men is more than 95,300 cases, of which the 3 most common types of cancer are liver, lung and stomach cancer;Women have 85,100 new cases, the most common are breast, lung and rectal cancer.
Cancer screening for patients at K Hospital
77% of liver cancer cases in men
About 71,300 people died from cancer were men, with 3 types of cancer with the highest number of deaths: liver, lung, and stomach cancer.In women, the number of deaths is about 48,800 cases, the most common is breast, lungs, liver.
Assoc.Prof. Dr. Pham Van Binh, Deputy Director of K Hospital, said that Vietnam has the highest level of new highest level of 101/185 countries and territories in the world and ranks 20/47 in Asia.
Currently, liver cancer has overcome lung cancer is the leading disease in Vietnam with nearly 26,500 cases each year, accounting for 14.5% of the total number of cancer cases (according to Globocan, an international cancer research agency)., of which 90% of liver cancer cases are liver cell carcinoma.
77% of liver cancer cases in our country are men.Liver cancer is also a type of cancer with a leading number of deaths with 25,272 cases, accounting for 21% of the total number of deaths from cancer.
Symptoms of liver cancer are usually not typical and easily overlooked, so most patients come to the examination, detect disease and treatment when they are late, difficult for treatment and costly.treatment funding.Therefore, experts recommend screening.
Who needs to screen for the disease?
At the early stage of liver cancer may experience symptoms of chronic hepatitis or progressive cirrhosis such as anorexia, pain, severe lower right flank;jaundice, also eyes ...
A group of risks should be screened early (every 6 months) including: People with hepatitis B, C, cirrhosis, fatty liver or in a family with people with liver cancer.If unfortunately suffered from hepatitis B, the active should be treated early to avoid complications.
Screening can detect stage cancer early.Photo: Thai Ha
For hepatitis due to autoimmune causes, it may be accompanied by other autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, basedow, rheumatoid arthritis, erythema lupus ... need to treat autoimmune diseases to avoid complicationsFor the liver.
In addition, people often eat fresh foods that are at risk of infection (large liver fluke, small liver fluke ...), including tapeworms when penetrating the body will destroy the liver, causing cancerliver.
Doctors recommend that people who are obese, diabetes and drink a lot of alcoholic beverages should screen liver cancer.By high blood sugar and blood fat, will be accumulated in the liver, leading to liver degeneration damage and leading to cirrhosis, increasing the risk of liver cancer.
According to K Hospital doctors, the treatment of liver cancer is a multi -formal treatment, so the choice of appropriate liver cancer treatment regimen depends on the lesions and fibrosis of the liver.Common treatments for liver cancer include: surgery, liver transplant, local tumor destruction, aortic chemical button, radiation, chemotherapy or a target treatment ...
Vietnam currently has 11 cancer hospitals in 9 provinces/cities;23 centers, Oncology Institute in 13 provinces/cities, 78 Cancer Faculty in 61 provinces/cities.And the two provinces do not have a cancer specialist, Tay Ninh and Binh Phuoc.