China News Service, Guangzhou, April 29 (Cai Minjie) In recent years, chronic respiratory diseases, especially chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, have become common and frequently-occurring diseases that affect people's lives and health.
Early detection and early treatment have a high cure rate and low treatment costs.
Sponsored by the Zhong Nanshan Medical Foundation of Guangdong Province and co-organized by the State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, the charity activity "Early Screening of People with Respiratory Health" was launched in Guangzhou recently.
The event plans to provide 10,000 people with free low-dose spiral CT of the lungs, CEA testing for tumor markers, and pulmonary ventilation function tests.
Lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are common respiratory diseases.
Among them, COPD is a chronic disease that cannot be cured. As the number of acute exacerbations increases, lung function gradually weakens, shortness of breath increases, and it is even difficult to put on and take off clothes, brush teeth, and wash face.
COPD has the characteristics of high prevalence, high disability, and high fatality rate, which seriously affects the prognosis and quality of life of middle-aged and elderly patients, and causes a heavy medical burden.
However, the above two diseases have the opportunity to be detected in the early stage when there are no symptoms or the symptoms are very mild. Early detection has a high cure rate and low treatment costs.
"At present, it is recognized that smoking is the biggest risk factor for COPD, and the greater the amount of smoking and the longer the smoking period, the higher the risk of COPD." Gao Yi, the relevant person in charge of the Pulmonary Function Examination Center of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University Introduced, some smokers will develop into patients with COPD, smoking cessation is the main way to prevent COPD.
The above public welfare activities will provide 10,000 citizens with free public welfare services for lung cancer and COPD screening to popularize early screening, early diagnosis and early treatment. This can reduce physical pain, mental and economic burdens for patients, and save more community resource.
At the launching ceremony, Xu Bin, executive captain of the Charity Workstation of the Volunteer Service Team of the Zhongnanshan Medical Foundation of Guangdong Province, released a public welfare tumor screening data.
The data shows that as of the end of March this year, the kind heart medical examination has provided a public welfare anti-cancer screening medical examination for a total of 2,622 eligible elderly people aged 55 to 75 within one and a half years.
Judging from the data of the examination results, there are 511 cases of major positives who need to go to the hospital for further diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible, accounting for nearly 20%, which is 2.5 times that of other physical examination populations.
Xu Bin said that this 10,000-person early screening activity is aimed at people over 35 years old, and it has opened up the whole chain of early screening, early diagnosis and early treatment: citizens who participated in this public welfare activity, if there are abnormal results after the screening, they can directly transfer The referral letter will be sent to the Department of Thoracic Oncology, Department of Respiratory Medicine and other relevant departments of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University for further diagnosis and treatment by experts. (Finish)