希波克拉底的教训:是时候改变癌症范式了。

International Journal of Chronic Diseases Pub Date : 2020-06-07 eCollection Date: 2020-01-01 DOI:10.1155/2020/4715426
Carlos M Galmarini
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摘要

所有医疗活动的最终目标是使病人恢复到一种完全的身体、精神和社会健康的状态。在癌症中,人们认为这只能通过完全消除肿瘤负担来实现。到目前为止,这一策略大大提高了癌症存活率。尽管如此,每年仍有900多万人死于癌症。因此,我们需要承认,我们目前的癌症治疗模式已经过时,必须改变。新的范式应该反映出癌症是一种全身性疾病,它影响到生活在特定社会现实中的个体患者,而不是一种入侵的有机体或仅仅是一群需要根除的突变细胞。这种希波克拉底式的整体观点最终将改善癌症患者的健康和福祉。他们理应如此。
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Lessons from Hippocrates: Time to Change the Cancer Paradigm.

Lessons from Hippocrates: Time to Change the Cancer Paradigm.

Lessons from Hippocrates: Time to Change the Cancer Paradigm.

The ultimate goal of all medical activity is to restore patients to a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing. In cancer, it is assumed that this can only be obtained through the complete eradication of the tumor burden. So far, this strategy has led to a substantial improvement in cancer survival rates. Despite this, more than 9 million people die from cancer every year. Therefore, we need to accept that our current cancer treatment paradigm is obsolete and must be changed. The new paradigm should reflect that cancer is a systemic disease, which affects an individual patient living in a particular social reality, rather than an invading organism or a mere cluster of mutated cells that need to be eradicated. This Hippocratic holistic view will ultimately lead to an improvement in health and wellbeing in cancer patients. They deserve nothing less.

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