Anti-Cancer Basics ⁽⁴⁸⁾

Whenever I fall ill myself, I am always very reluctant to take medicine. For a cold I use heat therapy, and for a cough I rely on rest. Of course, I rarely fall ill either; although my constitutional foundation is not all that strong, because…

Cancer-related research advances day by day, new anti-cancer drugs emerge endlessly, and treatment options are diverse. When a doctor lays a host of options before the patient and family, how should they choose? This is a question I often face. On this question everyone who…

Professor Zhang Renji, in Chapter 4 (“The Natural Course of Cancer”) of his book A New Approach to Treating Cancer with Chinese Medicine (Science and Technology Literature Press, August 1992), states: “Certain physical factors can also promote tumor metastasis, such as excessive massage of a…

When a patient is desperate, they will turn to any doctor—that is human nature. Especially after being diagnosed with cancer, people become even more panicked and tend to make rushed medical decisions. Under current medical conditions, cancer patients face many choices: surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, endocrine…

In the United States there is a dedicated profession called the genetic counselor. A genetic counselor is not a clinician, but possesses rich oncology knowledge and can help clients analyze their own and their family's cancer risk, identify high-risk causes of carcinogenesis, design pre-cancer intervention…

I once treated a melanoma patient with widespread metastases. He was from Zhejiang and one of the best friends of my life. He was a deeply compassionate and hardworking man; even after falling ill he kept doing high-intensity work without pause, which was a major…

Is cancer curable? For a long time, influenced by the prevailing view, I thought it was not. Because in practice things always fell short at the last step: we thought some cancer patients would not relapse, but they did, and the reasons were baffling. Yet…

Cigarettes are the single greatest killer of human health; on the list of causes of human death, smoking ranks first. By 2030, about 8.3 million people worldwide will die from various tobacco-related diseases, and tobacco-related deaths will account for roughly 10% of all global deaths.

Part of the case record of a leukemia patient I discuss in this article has already been published; for the detailed treatment plan, please see my article "A Case of TCM Treatment of a Leukemia Patient", so I will not repeat it here. In this…

Like humans, bees, and ants, cancer cells rely on cooperation among individuals to survive and multiply. Cancer cells that fight alone find it very hard to survive: first, because a single cancer cell can hardly draw nutrients from its surroundings; second, because such scattered, solitary…