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What happens to the body if cancer is left untreated?

How to prevent cancer?

By Phil HolzerPublished 3 years ago 5 min read

Our healthcare organization has published a statistical report showing that the number of cancer patients is about to exceed one million.

The danger of cancer is well known, as it leads to loss of resistance, tissue and organ failure, and life-threatening conditions. Especially for patients in the middle and late stages of cancer, there is little hope for a cure and the 5-year survival rate is below the average.

Nowadays, with the continuous progress of medicine, there are more solutions for cancer that can prolong the survival time of patients as long as possible. However, most cancer patients lack courage and are easily misled by rumors, resulting in a not-so-happy ending.

Many cancer patients will refuse treatment after a cancer diagnosis because they hear bad words, thinking that some cancer patients can live long without treatment, so what will happen to the body if cancer is not treated? Why don't you come and learn more about it?

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Will cancer patients live longer if they do not receive treatment?

For cancer, early detection and early treatment are generally advocated. Because early lesions are relatively small and fixed, the lesions can be removed surgically to stop cancer from the root. Patients can live longer, so timely treatment is generally recommended after cancer detection.

Some cancers develop extremely fast and if they are not treated in time, the lesions may transform and metastasize, which in turn may endanger other otherwise healthy tissues and organs in the body, which in turn will greatly shorten the life span of patients.

There is also a truth about cancer: many cancer patients do not eventually die from cancer, but from complications, and these complications are terrible if left untreated, so we should judge whether treatment can guarantee the quality of life according to age, physical condition, and psychological quality.

For elderly people with cancer, it is better not to choose surgery and chemotherapy, and to use herbal medicine to enhance immunity, which is painless although slow to fight cancer.

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What kind of changes will happen to people's bodies after they have cancer without treatment? Doctors finally tell the big truth

1. Malignant transformation of tissues and organs, or even failure

As we all know, cancer cells have high replication and reproduction ability, and they can maintain their activity by seizing the nutrients needed by normal tissue cells.

If the patient is suffering from cancer, he or she will always be passive and refuse to cooperate with the treating doctor to determine the specific plan, which will give the cancer cells sufficient space to live.

The speed of nutrient seizure is accelerated, and tissue cells often wither and die due to insufficient blood and oxygen supply, which eventually leads to organ failure and is life-threatening.

2. Causing unbearable pain

Patients will cause corresponding pain, and if cancer is not treated the pain symptoms it brings will gradually increase.

If cancer cells are not treated, they will not be able to stop from spreading and metastasizing in the body, and the tumor will slowly increase in size.

When the tumor presses on the nervous system, it will cause unbearable pain and even affect the normal functioning of internal organs, making the patient unable to swallow or eat.

The clinical manifestation is a very strong pain, which should be experienced only by oneself.

3. More serious infections can occur

Once cancer cells appear in the body, the immune function will gradually weaken and cannot eliminate them.

Once cancer cells appear in the body, the immune function will gradually weaken and cannot destroy them. With lower immunity, cancer cells will invade the body and cause the spread of cancer cells, which will lead to poor digestion and poor health.

4. Unable to eat

It is gradually spreading to the intestines after the middle and late stages, which is making people's appetite will be constantly reduced, and symptoms such as poor appetite and indigestion.

The body will continue to lose weight every day, which also leads to the internal organs do not have sufficient nutrition, and will also make the physical condition worse and worse.

5. Unable to take care of oneself in life

If the malignant tumor lesion condition continues to develop along with cancer, the cancer cells will become more and more numerous, and then the brain cells will be invaded by the cancer cells, thus inducing a severe stroke.

Maybe at first the patient chooses not to treatment, the body will experience discomfort, and as the condition becomes more and more serious, the discomfort symptoms will become more and more significant.

6. Causing early death

Although having cancer may shorten the survival period of patients, if treated actively, it can prevent the spread of cancer cells and can effectively prolong the survival period of patients. If treated early, it can also achieve a clinical cure.

Patients can survive for 5, 10, or even 20 years. If cancer gives up and is not treated, the cancer cells spread faster and death occurs earlier. Patients have about one year to a few months from the time of disease to death.

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Extension: How to prevent cancer? Six kinds of foods can prevent cancer if eaten regularly

1. Corn

It is not only beneficial for high blood pressure and urinary stones but also has anti-cancer effects. Coarse ground corn is rich in amino acids, which have a significant effect on cancer inhibition.

In addition, corn also contains glutathione, which generates glutathione oxidase with the participation of selenium, which can make chemical carcinogens inactive.

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2. Kelp

Kelp is not only rich in vitamin E and dietary fiber but also contains trace elements of iodine. Scientists believe that iodine deficiency is one of the causative factors of breast cancer, so eating kelp regularly can help prevent breast cancer.

The low incidence of breast cancer in Japanese women may be related to the regular intake of seaweed foods such as kelp. Meanwhile, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, rhizomes, water chestnuts, and bean foods are also delicacies that can prevent breast cancer.

3. Sweet potatoes

The anti-cancer effect of sweet potato is very good, which mainly depends on its composition, the deoxyisosterone and glycolipid components in sweet potato, these two components can effectively inhibit cancer cell generation and destroy cancer cells.

So if you want to prevent cancer, especially bowel cancer and breast cancer prevention, usually, then you can eat some sweet potatoes properly

4. Tea

Black tea and green tea are good foods to prevent cancer. Tea can prevent not only stomach cancer but also lung cancer.

The effective substances contained in tea can combine with carcinogens, decompose, reduce the activity of cancer cells, inhibit cancer cell cancer prevention, and long-term tea drinkers live longer.

Tea

5. radish

Studies have pointed out that this may be related to the natural folic acid contained in the food. At the same time, because the radish contains mustard oil, it and the enzymes in the radish can interact with each other, with the effect of promoting gastrointestinal motility, and appetite, to help digestion. In recent years, studies have found that radish thus also helps fight pancreatic cancer.

6. Shiitake mushrooms

Mushrooms are a kind of food with health benefits and cancer prevention effects, the most prominent of which is shiitake mushrooms. Because shiitake mushroom polysaccharides enhance cellular and humoral immunity, they have a similar effect to that of a tonic.

It is said that woodcutters in the deep Bohemian mountains of the Czech Republic never suffer from colds and cancer because they often eat wild shiitake mushrooms.

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