Recommended: Three Articles by the Well-Known Cancer Blogger "Shengdi Mieya" on Treating Cancer with TCM

Mr. Shengdi Mieya and I have known each other online for over ten years. Although we have never met, we have a certain bond. A few years ago, when he felt he might pass away at any moment, he even contacted me, ready to entrust the few patients he cared most about to me, hoping I would help them after he was gone—such was his trust in me.
Over the past two or three years I first prepared for the college entrance exam and then returned to university to study, and my contact with the outside world gradually lessened; I have not had time to read Mr. Shengdi Mieya's articles for a long while.
These past two days the system pushed his articles to me, and I read in one sitting the series he has been writing lately: "An 'Experienced Opinion' of an Old Cancer Patient Who Has Fought Cancer for 31 Years on Seeing a TCM Doctor for Cancer" (Part 1), "...(Part 2)", "...(Part 3-1)". These articles are all very well written and give a very accurate appraisal of TCM in fighting cancer.
I have linked all of Mr. Shengdi's articles above; readers who want to read them can click the titles to go directly to his posts. I recommend them to cancer patients and their families who are interested in the topic of TCM cancer treatment. Mr. Shengdi has had cancer for 31 years; his diagnosis was malignant melanoma.
He was once treated by the renowned cancer physician Sun Bingyan using TCM "using poison to attack poison" methods, and nearly died from poisoning. More than ten years later, when he relapsed, Dr. Sun Bingyan had already passed away. He sought out many famous TCM cancer specialists through various channels. In the end, relying on self-taught TCM knowledge, he treated himself; along the way he went through multiple relapses and came within a hair's breadth of death.
Mr. Shengdi was originally a researcher. When he was diagnosed with cancer in his youth, the direction of his life changed dramatically. In his spare time he devoted enormous effort to studying Chinese medicine; long illness made him his own expert, and he has seen every kind of good and evil in the medical field.
This series appears to have taken him on and off for half a year, and judging by the momentum it is not yet finished. It is long, rich in content, and quite valuable. I suggest that friends with cancer patients at home copy and save these articles, because some of Mr. Shengdi's earlier brilliant pieces have since been deleted. As a blogger myself I understand this well; more than half of my own articles have been deleted too—some on my own initiative, others passively.
Nearly every cancer patient or family member who has considered using TCM to fight cancer feels lost in this era: there is simply too much information, true and false, solid and illusory, and an inexperienced person can hardly tell right from wrong. Mr. Shengdi's account of his many experiences and observations while seeking medical help is enough to help readers form some rational judgments.
Mr. Shengdi Mieya is one of three advanced-stage cancer patients I have come to know who were treated by the late Dr. Sun Bingyan. All three survived significantly longer under Dr. Sun's care, but all three, without exception, later relapsed. Among them, Mr. Shengdi relapsed after nearly twenty years of tumor-free, symptom-free survival.
Dr. Sun's efficacy in treating them is beyond doubt, but even so these patients' cancers eventually returned. This shows just how hard cancer is to treat—it is by no means the easy, quickly-solved disease some people claim.
Moreover, Dr. Sun Bingyan used both Chinese and Western medicine together. He often converted chemotherapy drugs into oral form for his patients. Dr. Sun's books on treating cancer have been published; in them he openly describes his treatment plans and processes. His case records contain both Chinese herbs and Western medications; interested readers can buy and read the books themselves. His works include Clinical Experience of Sun Bingyan in Treating Tumors and Sun Bingyan's 40 Years Treating Cancer; these may now be available only as photocopies or e-books.
In Dr. Sun's day, treatment also often produced side effects too severe for patients to bear, and sometimes the condition deteriorated rapidly; Mr. Shengdi mentions this. Overall, his cure rate for cancer was not especially high.
Many of the famous physicians Mr. Shengdi mentions are people I have known directly or indirectly. In the internet age I have watched fans deify them. Some want to cash in on their reputations; others simply spread rumors by word of mouth.
In the end, just as Lu Xun remarked on Romance of the Three Kingdoms—"trying to show Liu Bei's kindness makes him seem hypocritical; depicting Zhuge Liang's wisdom makes him seem almost supernatural"—many things are exaggerated beyond the truth, misleading countless people. I especially hope everyone reads rationally and thinks rationally, and does not make wrong decisions misled by online information.