Healthy physical examination is used to find the early symptoms and to treat the disease
at the early stage.
The trend from "disease management' to "health management' is extremely reasonable
According to the statistics by WHO, healthy people consistent with basic health definitions
only accounts for 5% oftotal population, and 20% ofthe total populations are in the disease
state. 75% in the sub-healthy state.Therefore, you are not a patient but you still need our
health management Health management can actively prevent the disease, find the early
symptoms,and treat appropriately to lower the risk of carcinoma.
A 38yrs old male is received PET/CT scanning with no any discomfort in the lung.
Hypermetabolic nodule in the right lung is noted on the PET/CT images and early
lung cancer is proved by operation.He has a very positive prognosis.
The incidence of malignant tumor is 0.12% in the worid, and 3 people are diagnosed as
cancer patient and 2.5 people died per minute. It has already become the first killer of
the human diseases And WHO has pointed out that l/3 0f the malignant tumor can be
prevented, 1/3 can be effectively healed and the rest can be treated conservatively.
Active prevention, early diagnosis and appropriate treatment can reduce the risk of
cancer. Only in this way, it is possible to cure cancer. international health experts stress
that the recovery rate ofall kinds ofobstinate diseases will be improved if be diagnosed
early and treated promptly. E.g, the 5-year surviving rate of gastric cancer at early stage
to take operation is more than 90%. those at middle or late stage is only 8%~17% The
healing rate ofbreast cancer at early stage is 90%, but those at middle or late stage is
less than 50%.
However. some disease with absence of symptoms at early stage like cancer are often
neglected, and they have already deteriorated into the middle or late stage when obvious
symptoms occur, so the best therapeutic time have already been slipped away. Then,
whether an early, accurate, rapid, comprehensive and safe diagnostic method could be
found? it was a pity that our physicians could do nothing about it due tolack of a proper
medical diagnostic unit. As the development of modern technologies, when big screen
displays large pictures of rotated human three dimensional transparent images ofwhole
body to discriminate the visceral lesions at a glance, that's it.PET/CT scanl is it such a
"divine eye" that we are expecting so long! indeed, PET/CT is the best weapon to find
he early symptoms, guide proper treatment and inhibit the raging of carcinoma.