Contents:
- Medical Video: 5 common signs of lung cancer
- Is it possible to recover from cancer suddenly?
- What are the cases of spontaneous remission in cancer?
- Patients do not undergo conventional treatment at all
- Patients do not undergo full conventional treatment
- Patients progress gradually
- Patients have a long life expectancy
- Remission due to a combination of various treatments
- Miracle
- How can spontaneous remission occur?
- Who might recover from cancer?
Medical Video: 5 common signs of lung cancer
Cancer has become a word that contains alertness and fear. However, for a small number of people, cancer is actually evidence of a miracle. These people are cancer patients who experience spontaneous remissions where they are declared clean and recover from cancer unexpectedly. These cases certainly invite a lot of questions, especially from medical circles who have tried hundreds of years to defeat cancer. Can cancer heal by itself?
Is it possible to recover from cancer suddenly?
This phenomenon is known in the medical world as spontaneous remission. Spontaneous remission is a significant loss or reduction of tumors in patients who have been convicted of certain cancers. In addition, spontaneous remission also refers to a condition in which the patient no longer shows symptoms that are usually indicated by the disease suffered. What distinguishes this condition from remission in general is that spontaneous remission usually occurs without conventional cancer treatment or treatment such as tumor removal surgery or chemotherapy.
Although referred to as spontaneous remission, spontaneous words in this term do not mean literally. Spontaneous means that the patient shows gradual progress, it can even take months, until the disease is not found again for no apparent reason. In fact, people with cancer usually do not undergo treatment or care that a cancer patient should undergo.
Spontaneous remission is a very rare case. The prevalence of spontaneous remission in cancer patients reported by the BBC is 1 in 100,000 patients. Usually the types of cancer that most often show spontaneous remission are neuroblastoma, kidney cell cancer, melanoma skin cancer, leukemia, and lymph node cancer. However, this mysteriously cured disease can actually occur in almost all types of cancer.
What are the cases of spontaneous remission in cancer?
Experts are still debating the definitions and definite features of spontaneous remission in cancer patients. However, usually spontaneous remission of cancer is indicated by the loss or shrinkage of the tumor and cancer without signs of recurrence (cancer or tumor reappears) until ten years later. A case of cancer cure can be called spontaneous remission if it fulfills at least one of the following conditions.
Patients do not undergo conventional treatment at all
Some patients diagnosed with cancer in the late stages usually refuse treatment, treatment, or medical examinations because they prefer to focus on living the last days meaningfully. However, unexpectedly the cancer and tumors that had nested in their bodies disappeared or decreased significantly. Many hospitals and doctors have reported rare cases where patients were cleared of cancer without undergoing treatment or care provided by health facilities.
Patients do not undergo full conventional treatment
Patients continue to undergo treatment and medical care, but before the procedure is completed or fully undertaken, the patient no longer has a tumor or cancer cells in his body. In some other cases, patients only undergo makeshift treatment or care but have shown significant progress, even fully recovered.
Patients progress gradually
Some cancer patients manage to show progress which is medically very small or even impossible at all. Even though the patient does not necessarily get rid of cancer, the various symptoms and signs of cancer that he is suffering from begin to subside and disappear.
Patients have a long life expectancy
Spontaneous remission can also occur in cancer patients who have managed to live far longer than the prognosis or life expectancy estimated by medical personnel scientifically. These patients also live beyond survival (survival rate) which has been studied through health statistics.
Remission due to a combination of various treatments
Many cases of spontaneous remission are found in cancer patients who combine more than one method of treatment or treatment. For example, these patients continue to undergo a biopsy but at the same time undergo alternative treatment methods.
Miracle
For certain rare cases, cancer patients undergo religious rituals or perform a spiritual act such as meditation and fasting until they are declared cured of cancer. Most cancer patients who experience this type of spontaneous remission truly believe in the existence of power beyond the power and understanding of humans mixed in with their healing. Keep in mind that this way not a method of treatment or treatment which is recommended for cancer sufferers, but research shows that this has indeed happened.
How can spontaneous remission occur?
Experts are competing to examine cases of spontaneous remission and their causes. However, until now there is no definite answer that can explain why a person can suddenly recover from cancer. Based on case studies conducted by doctors, these are factors that can trigger spontaneous remission.
- The immune system (immune) that kills cancer cells
- Hormone factor
- Genetic mutations (changes in the structure of DNA and RNA)
- The tumor changes into healthy and normal tissue in the body
- Angiogenesis (formation of new blood vessels around the tumor) is inhibited
- Apoptosis (the process of killing cells that are not needed by the body)
- Positive placebo (empty drug) effect
- Hypnosis
Who might recover from cancer?
In cases of spontaneous remissions that have occurred, experts find similarities that patients have. Those who recover from cancer unexpectedly undergo changes in a healthier and more positive lifestyle, have the closest people who always support and assist, participate in activities that can increase awareness while reducing stress such as yoga and meditation, and want to accept their conditions as a meaningful lesson and experience.
