Eat properly and exercise properly
Moderate intake of protein-rich foods, eat more vegetables, fruits, limit the intake of refined sugar, a sentence summary is to follow the "high quality protein, medium proportion of fat and low sugar, high dietary fiber" dietary pattern.
Do not eat spoiled and moldy food, do not eat food that is not easy to digest or too sticky, such as rice dumplings, rice cakes, glutinous rice balls, coarse fiber vegetables, etc., so as not to cause obstruction.
For patients with esophageal cancer after surgery, appropriate exercise can reduce the risk of thrombosis (lying motionless for a long time after surgery, prone to thrombosis); Can promote gastrointestinal function, improve appetite; Active functional exercise can minimize the damage caused by operation; Moderate exercise can improve sleep, restore strength, and so on.
When exercising, it is necessary to choose the appropriate exercise items, exercise intensity and exercise time, and try to focus on gentle exercise.
Quit smoking and drinking, balance psychology
On the one hand, after most people know that they have cancer, they will have strong psychological fluctuations, and even "stress shock" in severe cases. Then, patients will be in a chaotic psychological state, in the long run, the body's immune function and nervous and endocrine systems will be affected, the internal environment is difficult to stabilize.
These, in turn, increase the likelihood of metastasis recurrence.
Therefore, efforts to help patients dispel the fear of cancer complex, it is very important.
On the other hand, although whether personality can cause cancer, or whether cancer patients have clear personality tendencies, is still controversial, but personality differences do have a certain relationship with cancer metastasis and recurrence.
By encouraging patients to actively participate in relevant community activities, they can gradually change or optimize their personality in the constant communication with cancer friends.
As a first step, it is necessary to kindly inform patients of the strengths and weaknesses of their personalities, and help them analyze and optimize their personalities.
Pay attention to the combination of work and rest, and develop good habits of rest and rest
Regular physical examination, timely review
Regular review is a compulsory course for every discharged patient with esophageal cancer. Taking postoperative patients as an example, patients are generally evaluated in the outpatient department at 1, 3 and 6 months after surgery.
After that, they were reviewed every six months for five years. If no disease progression is found within 5 years, a review is conducted annually thereafter.
Generally speaking, after the treatment of tumor patients, 2 to 3 years is the high incidence of recurrence and metastasis, 4 to 5 years no recurrence of metastasis, or the biological indications related to the tumor have been relatively stable, and the probability of subsequent recurrence of metastasis will be greatly reduced, which also indicates that the control of cancer has been accomplished. But many patients also slack off because of this.
In fact, the period of complete health after 5 years is not restful, and the longest relapse can occur decades later.
To a certain extent, the follow-up review of cancer patients should be lifelong.
In this way, signs of tumor recurrence and metastasis or the possibility of other tumors can be found in a timely manner, and timely treatment will achieve better results.
