Nearly Three Years of Chinese Medicine to Completely Eliminate All Metastases in a Stage 4C Ovarian Cancer Patient

On December 25, 2016, a patient surnamed Chen with stage 4C ovarian cancer from Lanzhou came to me together with a fellow patient to seek treatment for her stage 4C ovarian cancer. From then on she received my TCM treatment continuously.

On October 8, 2019, an MRI at the 940th Hospital of the Joint Logistics Support Force in Lanzhou (inpatient no. 702739, imaging no. 115212877, ID no. 79082834) showed that all metastatic lesions on her body had completely disappeared. A serum test report (patient no. 79082834, sample no. 20191007G0080422) showed that her ovarian-cancer-related markers—AFP, CEA, CA-125, CA-153, and CA-199—were all within the normal range.

By then, after two years and ten and a half months of my treatment, all of her metastases (as many as six sites) had been eliminated. Apart from slightly abnormal liver function caused by some toxin-attacking herbs, everything else was fine; her albumin, hemoglobin, and other blood-count indicators were normal, and her daily life and physical strength were good.

Over the preceding two years and ten and a half months, this patient returned to me for a follow-up every three months. She showed the utmost patience in sticking with the TCM regimen I gave, and I patiently and continuously adjusted and improved it, finally achieving gratifying results.

Her treatment has now entered the stage of preventing recurrence and regulating the body. Although the tumor has been completely cleared, given its tendency to recur, treatment cannot be relaxed; over the next few years, consolidation therapy must not be interrupted.

Few patients can follow treatment as patiently as this one. Based on my years of experience, most patients are half-skeptical of TCM, including the fellow patient who originally came with her, who was also initially half-skeptical.

After these two patients came to me, they showed my prescriptions to a TCM expert in their area, who had quite a few criticisms. The other patient therefore hesitated for several months before taking the medicine, influenced by that expert, and only returned to me after seeing how well this patient responded to the Chinese medicine.

But that other patient was also fortunate: although she was an advanced double-cancer patient (colorectal cancer and endometrial cancer with bone and liver metastases, later even brain metastasis), the combination of my herbs and PD-1 surprisingly also cleared all her tumors, and she is now doing well.

This patient, surnamed Chen, was born on May 14, 1969. In June 2012 she felt an enlarged supraclavicular lymph node; after a few days of anti-inflammatory drugs with little effect, a checkup in Lanzhou revealed advanced ovarian cancer. The doctors were reluctant to operate, but a well-known surgical specialist was found and surgery was done, followed by postoperative radiotherapy. After August 20, 2012 she began taking herbs prescribed by a famous older TCM doctor at the Guang'anmen Hospital. In July 2015 she stopped the herbs and practiced Guo Lin Qigong; the cancer markers slowly rose. She resumed that doctor's herbs, the markers fell, but after a month they could no longer be controlled. She then began radiotherapy, and the markers fell.

After repeated treatments her strength was much reduced. At the time she presented with sore and weak lower back and knees, easy fatigue requiring rest to recover. The inguinal metastases were large enough to be felt by hand. She also had hyperthyroidism and was prone to anger; she had originally had hypothyroidism, which later changed to hyperthyroidism.

Her sleep and appetite were fair; she had a regular morning bowel movement, with stools neither dry nor loose, formed and smooth. She felt she had yin deficiency: eating even slightly warm, drying foods caused 'heat rising,' and she needed chrysanthemum tea year-round; cold herbs did not cause loose stools. On examination, her right cun and guan pulses were slippery, large, and forceful, and the left pulse was deep and moderate. Her tongue was pale with little coating and red points; she had recently developed a fever and was rushed to hospital.

Initial decoction: Mohanlian 30 g, Nüzhenzi 30 g, Tusizi 15 g, Shayuanzi 15 g, Pugongying 30 g, Yejuhua 12 g, Tiankuizi 12 g, Diding 12 g, Jinyinhua 15 g, Cheqiancao 12 g, Huai Niuxi 12 g, Ezhu 9 g, Lianqiao 12 g, Tu Beimu 12 g, Haifushi (Pumex) 30 g (decocted first).

She was also told to take Neixiao Luoli Wan three times a day; Xihuang Wan once a day, 6-12 g each time; and Pingxiao Pian three times a day, 4-8 tablets each time. At the same time, powder made from Wugong, Quanxie, and similar toxins was taken internally.

At the second visit on March 24, 2017, the inguinal metastasis had clearly shrunk. The right pulse was slightly wiry and slippery, hard on deep pressure, and the chi position fine and wiry; the left pulse was deep and fine. On the basis of the previous decoction I added Zexie 12 g, stir-fried Baizhu 15 g, raw Huangqi 30 g, Pian Jianghuang 6 g, Chanyi 6 g, stir-fried Jiangcan 10 g, Daji 15 g, and Xiaoji 15 g. The patent medicines were supplemented with Jiawei Xiaoyao Wan.

Thereafter she returned every three months, basically on the basis of Wuwei Xiaodu Yin, Sheng Jiang San, and Xiaoluo Wan, with additions and subtractions, while taking patent medicines. Her condition was sometimes stable and sometimes rebounded.

At one point she took a nutritional supplement imported from Germany, after which her CA125 rose rapidly. She was alarmed and underwent chemotherapy plus bevacizumab for a while. CA125 came under some control, but the metastatic tumors changed little.

The turning point came at the end of 2018. After years of researching TCM anticancer treatment, I decided to break with convention and combine more than a hundred herbs for joint anticancer action. Following the broad strategy of supporting antipathogenic qi and expelling pathogen, I focused on herbs that support the root, activate blood and resolve stasis, soften hardness and dissipate nodules, resolve phlegm and drain water, and attack toxin with toxin, to treat her. Adjusting the dosages every month or two, her tumors began to shrink.

At the follow-up on January 10, 2019, there was bilateral cervical lymph-node enlargement, visible axillary nodes, and visible bilateral inguinal nodes. But by the follow-up on July 14, 2019, the abdominal and inguinal nodes had clearly decreased in number and size. By the October 2019 review, all metastases had disappeared and the tumor markers were normal.

Since beginning treatment, two years and ten and a half months have passed. There were repeated setbacks, but the patient never considered changing doctors or regimens. These two-plus years were precisely the critical period in which I kept trying new ideas to raise the success rate against cancer. Each time I had a new idea, she volunteered to be my clinical experiment. The medication once made her liver function abnormal, but she did not panic or grow fearful.

It is precisely because of her trust that I dared, again and again, to explore new and more effective regimens for her. There is no smooth road in fighting cancer; after treating this long, how could there have been no twists? Yet however many the twists, we treated each other openly and with trust, and whenever a problem arose we explored how to solve it. After holding on so long, we finally found a way to solve her problem.

Doctor and patient depend on each other. In the course of treating illness, although the doctor helps solve the patient's problems, the patient also fulfills the doctor's career. It is precisely because of the patient's trust and entrustment that the doctor has the chance of clinical practice and the chance to test whether his ideas are correct.

Stage 4C ovarian cancer is also a universally recognized medical challenge; treating such patients by conventional thinking rarely succeeds. I have been exploring unconventional new approaches. Since last year I have been experimenting—on a group of patients who firmly trust me—with the approach I wrote about: combining multiple lines of thought and many herbs to attack cancer at multiple targets, and have achieved some results.

The successful treatment of this patient is enough to show that, following this line of thinking, there is hope of completely eliminating the tumors of some cancer patients currently considered incurable. Whether, once eliminated, the cancer can be kept from recurring requires more time to prove.