Happy World Cancer Day, 2021.
๐ฃ๐ต๐๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฟ:
How to Battle Cancer Through Physical Therapy
Happy World Cancer Day, once again.
Did you know that Physiotherapy can help cancer patients and survivors (adults and children) live a better, longer and happier life?
Let's go on this journey together...
๐ถ Physical therapists often treat cancer patients. Cancer treatment includes chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery, which are being continuously developed and thus increase survival of patients with cancer diagnosis.
๐ท The theme for World Cancer Day 2021 is 'I Am and I Will.' It is a multi-year campaign that began in 2019 and will end this year. The theme represents an empowering call-to-action urging personal commitment, it also represents the power of action taken now to have a positive impact on the future. The theme clearly focuses on “together all our actions matter”.
✳️Cancer is a large group of diseases that can start in almost any organ or tissue of the body when abnormal cells grow uncontrollably, go beyond their usual boundaries to invade adjoining parts of the body and/or spread to other organs (WHO). The most common cancers are:
Lung, breast, stomach,
✴️Cancer arises from the transformation of normal cells into tumour cells in a multistage process that generally progresses from a pre-cancerous lesion to a malignant tumour. (WHO).
✳️ The exact causes of Cancer are still undergoing research but can include:
sedentary lifestyle, tobacco, environmental toxins, Genes, processed foods etc.
✳️There are many cancers in the world with various symptoms, However, the following are the common symptoms:
- Sudden Weight loss
- Extreme Fatique
- Changes in bowel and bladder function
- Lump
- Excruciating Pain
✴️ Cancer diagnosis is not a death sentence. More specifically, 5-year survival rates increase with each cancer diagnosis. Cancer patients have many problems including muscle weakness, pulmonary dysfunction, fatigue, and pain.
In the end, patients with cancer tend to have a decline in activities of daily living (ADL) and quality of life (QOL).
Additionally, cancer patients often have progressive disease, depression, and anxiety.
✴️ Physical therapy often helps patients regain strength and physical function and improve their QOL and independence of daily living that they may have lost due to cancer or its treatment.
✴️ Physical therapy has an important role in increasing physical function of cancer patients, cancer survivors, and children with cancer (¹)
(Shinichiro M & Atsuhiro T. Physical therapy in patients with cancer. 2017.)
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