Bladder Cancer ⁽⁶⁾

Intravesical instillation is a treatment method that can deliver drugs directly to the entire mucosal surface of the bladder. Its advantage is that the warmed medicinal solution can reach the lesion directly without missing any cancerous lesions. Its anti-cancer mechanism is the combined direct killing…

The inner surface of the bladder is lined by mucosa. When the bladder wall contracts, the mucosa gathers into folds called bladder rugae. On the internal surface of the bladder base, between the ureteric orifices on both sides and the internal urethral orifice, there is…

Hong Ziyun (1916-1986), given name Yuankai, was from Honggang Village, Xinmiao Township, Ezhou City, Hubei Province. During his lifetime he served as director of the Shanghan (Cold-Damage) teaching and research office at Hubei College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (now Hubei University of Chinese Medicine), as…

Researchers at the University of Tokyo and other institutions recently issued a joint press release reporting that a kind of p16-positive senescent cells in bladder tissue may be associated with the development of bladder cancer. Through experiments on laboratory mice, the researchers found that, when…

Digang Wan (Expel the Storage Pill) is a Zhang Zhongjing formula from the Shanghan Lun for "lower burner blood-storage syndrome." It is composed of Shuizhi (Leech), Mengchong (Tabanid Fly), Taoren (Peach Kernel), and Dahuang (Rhubarb), and has the action of attacking and expelling static blood.

This article is excerpted from Yan Rongguang's cancer-treatment medical cases: TCM Treatment Characteristics for Cancer. The whole book is long and is therefore divided into several chapters; you may also directly click the table of contents below to enter the chapter you need. Preface and…