"Before I came to Denmark, I heard that the cancer incidence rate in your country is very high. I didn't have a clear feeling at that time, but now I have it."

When Li Wei heard that Professor Nicole had a friend suffering from lung cancer, he sighed in his heart that it is not bad that it is a cancer capital. I am afraid that any local person will know a friend suffering from cancer.

But Professor Nicole shook his head and asked Li Wei with a somewhat intriguing expression: "Li, what do you think is the reason why the cancer incidence in Denmark remains high?"

Li Wei frowned. He didn't pay attention to this matter normally, so he had to rely on his first feeling and tentatively answered: "The smoking rate is too high? I remember that you Danes have a high smoking rate, especially among women. Smoking is also a common phenomenon, so your lung cancer rate is so high."

"No, Germany's smoking rate is higher than that in Denmark, but the cancer incidence is not higher than that in ours. Your statement is not completely correct."

Nicole blinked at Li Wei naughtyly and said with a smile: "It may be difficult for you to accept that Denmark has a high cancer incidence. In addition to the reasons for the patients themselves, there is also a large part of the reason because Denmark is a highly developed country."

"The top ten countries in the world with cancer incidence rates, whether it is Denmark, France, Ireland, Belgium, the United States and Norway, have one thing in common. We are all highly developed countries with sound social welfare and stable social development."

"The medical system in developed countries is sound, and the chance of cancer detection is high. Many deaths are thought to be natural death, but in fact they are cancer."

"And a large part of the reason why cancer incidence in developed countries is so high is due to the increase in life expectancy."

"According to statistics, before the age of 75, the cumulative risk of cancer is 21.4%, and the risk of dying from cancer is 17.7%. However, once you exceed 75 years old, this proportion will increase exponentially!"

"Most cancers are geriatric diseases, the product of genetic mutations during the natural aging of the human body. Just like we cannot stop wrinkles and presbyopia, this is inevitable."

"This..." Li Wei was stunned for a moment, and it seemed that it was correct to say this.

After decades, in his grandparents’ generation, he had basically never heard of cancer at that time. The main reason was that he had no idea what disease it was!

After 50 years old, I only know that my body hurts and dies in pain. I don’t know what’s going on. There are even many places where people can’t survive when cancer is discovered...

The common cause of cancer is because the medical conditions are getting better and better, and many people can live to the age of getting cancer.

With the development of society, the improvement of medical care level, and the overall life span, the incidence of cancer is getting higher and higher, and more and more cases are being tested and counted.

In the world's cancer incidence statistics, poor areas have the lowest incidence rates. Does this mean that people in poor areas will not get cancer?

For poor and poor areas, taking antibiotics is an economic burden. Do you still expect to get cancer diagnosed and treat it?

Most people in poor areas will die from some other diseases in their 40s and 50s, and they will not live to the age of high cancer incidence!

From a statistical point of view, the onset of cancer is only clearly related to age, and has no clear relationship with other carcinogenic factors.

Li Wei sighed and suddenly understood why the cancer incidence in Denmark remained high.

The average life expectancy in Denmark is growing steadily every year. Not only Denmark, but most developed countries in the world have good conditions and without personal accidents, the proportion of elderly people is growing steadily year by year. It is not surprising that the incidence of cancer increases together.

It is obvious that the increase in life expectancy is a gratifying good thing, but cancer will also occur at a high rate. This is like a warning from God to mankind, and he does not want humans to live for too long.

The two of them suddenly lost the desire to chat and walked silently to the surgical area of ​​the Affiliated Hospital of the Affiliated Hospital of the Ouburg University.

As soon as he arrived at the operating floor on the fifth floor, a staff member of the clinical team came up to remind Li Wei: "Researcher Li, the clinical trial in the afternoon is about to begin. You can prepare and follow us into the operating room."

Li Wei nodded and said that he knew, so he went to the operating room with Nicole to change his surgical gown, brushed his hands, and walked into the operating room.

Interventional injection of gene-editing drugs has begun, and a five-person surgical team is undergoing the operation seriously around the operating table.

While watching the operation, Li Wei introduced in detail to Professor Nicole:

"The subject who participated in the trial today is a female, 65 years old, with primary early liver cancer. She has undergone radiofrequency ablation and transhepatic artery embolization chemotherapy. After comprehensive consideration, the doctor felt that it was not suitable for hepatic resection."

"After all liver cancers are suitable for surgical resection. Although the tumor of this patient is relatively small, it has severe cirrhosis. If hepatectomy is performed, the liver function cannot be compensated after the resection, and liver failure may occur."

"However, although it is impossible to directly remove cancerous tissue from the liver, our gene editing drugs can cut off the division and replication genes of these cancerous cell tissues, turn them into linear cells, and be degraded by enzymes."

"According to our past experience, it is optimistic that about 70% of cancerous cells can be cut within three days, and these cancerous cells will be degraded by human enzymes in a week."

"And the immune group that remains in the human body will continue to fight against liver cancer cells. As long as it divides and grows, it will be cut off. At least in the next 10 years, the liver cancer tissue in this patient's body will not grow very much."

Professor Nicole listened very seriously and nodded from time to time.

He agreed: "Many cancer patients have undergone comprehensive treatment and have good recovery. Survival with tumors may become a normal state in the future!"

"Your research direction and treatment ideas are very correct!"

"The goal of the cancer war is not to eliminate cancer or cure cancer, but to find the best balance between side effects and treatment effects like other chronic diseases and achieve long-term control of the disease!"

"As long as the immune function can be balanced with the tumor, then this will enable tumor-resistant survival. Most cancers can strive for five years, ten years, or even longer survival!"

Li Wei nodded and said in line with the situation: "Professor Nicole, you are right. This is also the idea of ​​Professor Yun Heng, the head of our project. Since the cure for cancer is very difficult and it is basically difficult to achieve with the current medical level, then we will settle for the second best. Survival with tumors is also a treatment method."
Chapter completed!