Cancer broken Internet rumors

The 2017-05-27

Source: health

Chief journalists - Tan Jia

The age of the Internet, the network become a convenient channel of public access to health information.But in the information in the ocean, also unavoidably mud and sand flow together.Among them, the cancer society watches topic is the worst-hit areas abounds in rumours, some so-called \"scientific knowledge\" of the true and false mixed at 100000 + reading quantity.The expert inside course of study reminds, credulous can lead to loss of the crisis, harmful.

Cancer rumors playful tricks

In the recently released tencent health class ten rumors in the first quarter of 2017 list, because the understanding deviation of achievements in scientific research and produce health rumors \"66% of cancer because of bad luck\" ranked third.The public information related to cancer of the high attention and trust degree.

Reporters found that in cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment of each link rumor is almost always produced.Involved in cancer definition, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of pseudoscience tech knowledge.All kinds of rumors causes are different, have a plenty of understanding deviation, have a plenty of biased, some is black and white upside down.As these rumors or subvert blockbuster found hat, much in the public eye;Or disguised as a professional academic knowledge, column charts, extremely MengBiXing;Or in the form of revelation, coincides with a part of the public mistrust of medical questions, state of mind.

Such as the article said, there is no cancer in the world, just meridian \"stasis and wall\".At the Chinese academy of traditional Chinese and western medicine combined with tumor, deputy director of professional committee members, the xinjiang uygur autonomous region hospital of traditional Chinese medicine tumor of two hong-liang zhang said, in fact, \"meridian of stasis and wall\" is part of the understanding of tumor etiology of TCM, generally summed up in \"stasis and blocking meridians\" cancer is the nature of the mistake and one-sided.Tianjin cancer hospital of Chinese and western medicine combined with director of Pan Zhanyu also stressed that the Chinese traditional medicine and modern western medicine for cancer has different knowledge system, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the understanding of tumor formation have spirit and Yin deficiency, and meridians and blood stasis blocking different symptoms, on the Internet about cancer is blood stasis blocking, is not comprehensive.

And the article of exaggeration, declared that \"eat xx cancer\".Pan Zhanyu said, this is the most common cancer health rumors, himself in the outpatient service often encountered in patients with related consulting.\"I heard that some patients to eat sea cucumber polysaccharide cancer and ask can eat sea cucumber?\"Pan Zhanyu explains, sea cucumber polysaccharide has the intervention to adjust the action of the immune system, but is not equal to eat sea cucumber can be anti-cancer, there is no causal relationship between the two.Cancer patients and their families should pay attention to diet nutrition rather than cancer, a balanced diet, can help patients get better therapeutic effect.

The patient hand built line

How to get truly valuable medical information from the Internet?Pan Zhanyu, said the public first selects reliable sources of information.Such as establishing academic guidelines from medical professional website, the authority of the academic organization official website can obtain professional and authoritative information.Media should guide the public to establish the rational understanding of disease, improve the cancer prevention and treatment knowledge of science.

\"Professionals, especially tumor doctor shall bear the burden of cancer science, spread the correct cancer related knowledge, from the positive impact the public's perception of disease.\"Hong-liang zhang says, oneself also often encountered in the clinical work time online to see a variety of anti-cancer verification information to the patient.Therefore, hong-liang zhang led the department set up a \"science of TCM anticancer in xinjiang\" WeChat public, push to the public in a timely manner of combining traditional Chinese and western medicine tumor prevention and treatment of popular science knowledge, colleagues are actively involved in WeChat articles written in the field of work.

\"In the process of cancer prevention and control, doctor-patient trust between the two sides is particularly important.\"Xin-qing zhang, humanities college, Peking union medical college, said professor should fully believe that the vast majority of patients with a doctor is a scheme for diagnosis and treatment for the patients needs and interests, the patient and family to use the right attitude to treat disease, cooperate a doctor to complete diagnosis and treatment, rather than suspicious and resistance, the full of trust will reduce a lot of cost and misunderstanding.