Huang Kaiwen said, "Minimally invasive cancer treatment has a characteristic. The tumor must be in the early stage to be effective." The purpose of active screening is early detection, "In this way, minimally invasive ablation will be useful!".

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[Reporter Dong Guanyi/Taipei Report] Huang Kaiwen, director of the Center for Minimally Invasive Interventional Therapy at National Taiwan University and a professor at the Institute of Clinical Medicine of the National Taiwan University School of Medicine, was recently elected by experts from various countries as the chairman of the first Asia-Pacific region at the annual meeting of the World Society for Interventional Oncology (SIO).

In addition to holding multiple jobs, I also find time to go to outlying islands and remote villages for free clinics every six months, which has been going on for more than ten years.

He is doing free clinics in mountainous areas. He said that the free clinics are related to his profession. "Minimally invasive cancer treatment has a characteristic. The tumor must be in the early stage to be effective." The purpose of active screening is early detection. "In this way, minimally invasive ablation is useful. Land of martial arts!"

Huang Kaiwen pointed out, "All people with advanced stage were once early patients, but no one discovered it at that time." The so-called early stage and late stage can be divided into "still localized or already spread." Minimally invasive interventional therapy is useless for those who have already spread. However, if it is localized and there is no other metastasis, spread or invasion, such as liver cancer patients with tumors still in the liver, early detection can be used for minimally invasive (interventional) treatment, increasing the chance of cure or long-term survival.

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Does being cured mean that it can be cured and will not relapse?

Huang Kaiwen said bluntly, after being cured, whether the patient will no longer get sick from now on is not something that can be guaranteed by "curing". Suppose a person is cured of disease A, will he definitely not get disease B?

When the patient is cured of cancer, the next thing to do is to continue to closely follow up. If there is no tumor in the process, but the tumor comes out, it means that it is relatively early and small, and the treatment will be better than "never found, once found It’s more sure if it’s a big one.”

Huang Kaiwen once mentioned in his speeches that "the purpose of healing is to return to life."

He explained that people will get sick, but there is still a long way to go before the time of death. They may have been receiving treatment for more than ten or twenty years, going to the hospital, taking medicine and facing side effects. The family must also continue to take care of them. , The quality of life is poor, and each other's lives have changed.

"I think that treatment should be to cure the patient and allow the patient to return to his own life, so that we will feel that this treatment is really helpful to the patient."

Huang Kaiwen added that today's medicine can improve the survival rate of patients, which is very respectable, but it seems a bit unethical. I hope that if the patients can fully recover after receiving treatment, should there be more effective treatment?

Surgical resection, minimally invasive or interventional therapy can cure patients, but not all patients are suitable. This is why he has repeatedly emphasized "early detection and active intervention". , Tell the public what screening to do.

He said that when patients find that there is a real problem, they can provide resource assistance. "This is our bounden duty in this field, and we have been heading in this direction for more than ten years."

After being cured, patients are encouraged to continue to receive close follow-up. "You can still maintain a normal life. The only thing you need to do is to go to the hospital for a check-up every 3 months." This is a necessary systematic strategy, so that cancer patients can Back to normal life.

Huang Kaiwen, director of the Center for Minimally Invasive Interventional Therapy at National Taiwan University and a professor at the Institute of Clinical Medicine of the National Taiwan University School of Medicine, was recently elected by experts from various countries as the chairman of the first Asia-Pacific region at the annual meeting of the World Society for Interventional Oncology (SIO).

(Provided by Dr. Kevin Huang)

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