Cancer Treatment Requires Holistic Treatment of Body, Mind, and Spirit
Both Chinese and Western medicine understand cancer as a whole-person disease. The causes that induce cancer include psychological factors and personality factors, as well as lifestyle, precancerous lesions, the natural environment, and the interpersonal environment. Therefore, treating cancer should be a systematic project, requiring holistic treatment of the patient's body, mind, and spirit.
I personally believe that, for any cancer patient, relying solely on surgery, chemoradiotherapy, or Chinese and Western drugs alone can hardly achieve a satisfactory result. At present, medical institutions generally provide insufficient psychological support and spiritual guidance to cancer patients; they have more than enough intimidation. After falling ill, on top of their originally poor psychological makeup, patients are loaded with adverse emotions such as fear, panic, and despair, which is not conducive to improvement.
Holistic treatment of body, mind, and spirit is precisely the path I have resolved to research. Cancer treatment needs the various medical means of both Chinese and Western medicine; it also needs a series of inner-rebuilding and social-relationship-rebuilding efforts, including death education, life education, religious education, character education, and psychological adjustment. In China in recent years, the reason cancer incidence has soared and cancer patients have become younger and younger has much to do with the current natural environment, the overly competitive social environment, and the simplification of values. Chinese people generally are under great psychological pressure, and psychological pressure plays a large role in inducing cancer.
How to solve these problems is what we should explore. I hold the view that, if a patient's inner being cannot be rebuilt, cancer treatment will most often end in failure. Because once the patient enters a state of panic, over-eagerness for treatment is inevitable. Many patients I have come into contact with were over-treated not so much because the hospitals over-treated them, but because after falling ill they panicked and sought treatment everywhere, causing the over-treatment. I have no intention of defending today's medical institutions, but in my nearly ten years in the cancer community I have indeed observed that patients who die quickly have this tendency: they ask around everywhere for the latest cancer treatment, for the miracle doctor who treats cancer, and then go seeking help at any cost. Some truly spend their entire family fortune on treatment.
After cancer, faced with the fear of death, such actions are quite understandable. But doing so, in most cases, only accelerates the patient's death and does nothing to relieve the condition. I created this website, write all kinds of cancer-related knowledge, and even set up a QQ group—a small team of cancer patients encouraging and helping one another—where cancer survivors of many years provide peer education to newly diagnosed patients. An important purpose is to provide cancer patients with a platform for treating body, mind, and spirit together. Perhaps one day this website will become a platform and a bond for many cancer patients to exchange and learn. Personally, I think such an attempt is meaningful.